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He possessed a white shield known as al-Mujiz.
He had a dark horse called al-Sakb.
He owned a saddle named al-Daj (A).
He kept a dapple-grey mule called Duldul.
He had a she-camel known as al-Qaswaʾ.
He possessed a donkey named Yaʿfur.
He owned a carpet called al-Karr (B).
He kept a short spear-staff (1) known as al-Nimr (C).
He had a water pitcher called al-Sadir.
He possessed a mirror known as al-Mirʾah.
He had a pair of shears called al-Jamiʿ.
And he carried a staff of shooḥaṭ wood (2) known as al-Mashuq.
(1) The anza is roughly half the length of a spear, or slightly longer, and is tipped with a spearhead like that of a full-sized spear; the ukaza is a similar implement. See Ibn al-Athir, al-Nihaya, vol. 3, p. 308.
(2) Al-Mubarrad states: “The nabaʿ, shuhat, and shiryan—names for the tree from which bows are fashioned—refer to a single species; the different names vary by region.” See Takhrij al-Dalalat, p. 418.
(A) In Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid the reading is al-dah.
(B) The base manuscript has al-kurd, whereas the wording adopted here follows the versions of al-Tabarani and Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid; al-Zad reads al-kun.
(C) Al-Zad also records the variant al-qamra.
وكان له ترس أبيض يسمى: "الموجز".
وكان له فرس أدهم يسمى: "السكب".
وكان له سرج يسمى: "الداج" (أ) .
وكانت له بغلة شهباء يقال لها: "دُلْدُل".
وكانت له ناقة تسمى: "القَصْوَاء".
وكان له حمار يسمى: "يعفُور".
وكان له بساط يسمى: "الكر" (ب) .
وكانت له عَنَزَة (١) تسمى: "النمر" (ج) .
وكانت له ركوة تسمى: "الصادر".
وكانت له مرآة تسمى: "المرآة".
وكان له مقراض يسمى: "الجامع".
وكان له قضيب شوحط (٢) يسمى: "المشوق".
(١) العنزة: مثل نصف الرمح أو أكبر شيئا، وفيها سنان مثل سنان الرمح، والعكازة قريب منها. "النهاية" لابن الأثير (٣/٣٠٨) .
(٢) قال المبرد: "النبع وشوحط والشريان في الشجر التي تعمل منه القسي، شجرة واحدة وتختلف أسماؤها باختلاف أماكنها" راجع: "تخريج الدلالات" ص (٤١٨) .
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(أ) في مجمع الزوائد "الداح".
(ب) في الأصل: "الكرد" وما أثبته من الطبراني والمجمع، وفي الزاد: "الكن"!!
(ج) في الزاد: القمرة.