Saʿd ibn Mālik said, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ emptied his quiver for me on the Day of Uḥud and said, ‘Shoot; may my father and mother be your ransom.’”

In another wording recorded by both compilers: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ combined his father and mother in my favor on the Day of Uḥud.” (1)

Muslim (2) relates through ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd, from his father, that “the Prophet ﷺ combined his father and mother for him on the Day of Uḥud. Saʿd said: A man from the idolaters was fiercely harming the Muslims, so the Prophet ﷺ said to me, ‘Shoot; may my father and mother be your ransom.’ I drew an arrow that had no head, struck him in the side, and he fell, his private parts exposed. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ laughed until I could see his molars.”

Twelfth: Whoever walks (3) between the two targets receives a good deed for every step.

Al-Ṭabarānī narrates in his book The Virtue of Archery (4), through ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Abū Dharr, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Whoever walks between the two targets, a good deed is written for him with every step.”

Thirteenth: Out of his eagerness for archery, the Prophet ﷺ would hand the archer even an arrow without a head so that he might shoot it, and the archers served as a shield for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; as Ibn Isḥāq mentions in al-Maghāzī (5) in the narration of Saʿd, that he shot on the Day