Al-Wāqidī relates [1]: Usāmah ibn Zayd narrated to me, from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from several men of the clan of Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal, who said:

“Salamah ibn Ḥuraysh’s sword snapped on the Day of Badr, leaving him weaponless. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ handed him a twig he was holding—a palm frond from the Ibn Ṭāb variety—and said, ‘Strike with this.’ At once it became a sound, well-forged sword, and it remained with him until he was martyred on the Day of Abū ʿUbayd’s Bridge.” [2]

(It was likewise the Prophet ﷺ who restored Qatādah’s eye.)

Al-Bayhaqī records in Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah [4]: Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī told us, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdiyy told us, Abū Yaʿlā told us, Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī reported to us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Ghasīl narrated from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah, from his father, from his grandfather Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān, that Qatādah’s eye was struck on the Day of Badr until the pupil dangled upon his cheek. The people wished to sever it, but first they asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said, “No.” He called Qatādah over, pressed the eye back with his blessed hand, and thereafter Qatādah could not discern which of his eyes had been injured. In another wording [5], it states: it became the better of his two eyes.

We have also transmitted that when the Commander of the Believers ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz heard this report from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah—and ʿĀṣim recited:

I am the son of the man whose eye ran down his cheek,
Yet was restored by the Chosen One’s hand—how perfect a restoration! [6]

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, may Allah have mercy on him, responded by citing the verse of Umayyah ibn Abī al-Ṣalt about Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan, declaiming in its proper place—affirming:

Those are the true marks of nobility—not two wooden bowls of milk
Thinned with water, only to turn at last into waste.