He had seven coats of mail: Dhāt al-Fudūl, which he pledged to Abū al-Shahm, the Jew, in return for thirty sā‘s of barley for his family. The debt was due after one year, and the coat of mail was made of iron. The others were Dhāt al-Wishāh, Dhāt al-Hawāshī, al-Sughdiyya, Fidda, al-Batrā’, and al-Khirniq.
He had six bows: al-Zawrā’, al-Rawhā’, al-Safrā’, al-Baydā’, al-Katūm—which broke on the day of Uhud and was taken by Qatāda ibn al-Nu‘mān—and al-Sadād.
He had a quiver called al-Kāfūr and a belt made of scraped leather (1), with three silver rings, a silver buckle (2), and a silver tip. This is what some have stated. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya said: “No report has reached us that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, fastened a belt around his waist” (3).
He had a shield called al-Zallūq (4) and another called al-Futaq (5). It is also said that he had a shield
(1) From bashara al-adīm (to scrape the surface of leather). The printed editions read “manshūr,” a scribal corruption.
(2) The buckle is the fitting at the end of the belt; it has a tongue that engages the other end.
(3) Al-Qaramāniyya, in Jāmi‘ al-masā’il (7:147). Al-Wāqidī reports in al-Maghāzī (1:214) that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, wore a coat of mail on the day of Uhud: “He displayed it and cinched it around the middle with a belt made from leather sword-straps …” See also Ibn Sa‘d’s al-Tabaqāt (2:38). Among those who mention the belt described here are the hadith scholar al-Dimyātī in Mukhtasar al-sīra (p. 175), Ibn Sayyid al-Nās in ‘Uyūn al-athar (2:386), and Ibn Jamā‘a in al-Mukhtasar al-kabīr (p. 126).
(4) Sād, kāf, and ‘ayn read “al-Dalūf”; jīm, qāf, and mīm-bā’ read “al-Dalūq.” In ‘ayn, this was changed to the reading adopted here on the basis of the sources.
(5) In qāf, both the fā’ and the tā’ are marked with a damma (the vowel u).