On the authority of Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, who said:
“I travelled to Yemen and purchased a ceremonial cloak of Dhū Yazan. I presented it to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, but he returned it to me. I then sold it, and later he bought it (back) and wore it. He came out to his Companions wearing it, and I had never seen anything more beautiful than he was in that garment. I could not restrain myself and recited:
‘The judges of merit need look no further once
a pure blaze of brow and anklets has appeared; (1)
Whenever they compare him in honour, he surpasses them all, (2)
pouring forth like the torrents of a drenching rain.’ (3)
The Prophet ﷺ heard my words, turned toward me smiling, then went inside and bestowed the cloak upon Usāmah ibn Zayd. (4)
Imām Aḥmad (5) relates: Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (6) narrated to us, from Zāʾidah, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh, from Umm Salamah who said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered upon me with a drawn, pale face. Thinking he was in pain I asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I see you pale; is it from illness?’ He replied:
‘No, but the seven dinars that were brought to us yesterday and which we have not spent—I forgot them in the corner of the mattress.’” (7)
This is reported only by Aḥmad.
Imām Aḥmad also said: Abū Salamah narrated to us; Bakr ibn Muḍar informed us; Mūsā ibn Jubayr narrated to us, from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, who said:
“One day ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr and I entered upon ʿĀʾishah. She said, ‘If only you had seen the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during one of the days of his illness! He had with me six dinars’—Mūsā said, ‘or seven’—‘and he instructed me to distribute them. The illness of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ occupied me until Allah granted him recovery. Then he asked me about them and said:
‘What became of the six’—or he said, ‘the seven’?
I replied, ‘By Allah, your illness distracted me from them.’
He thereupon called for them, placed them in the palm of his hand one by one, and said:
‘What would the Prophet of Allah think of himself were he to meet Allah with these still in his possession!’” (8)
This too is narrated solely by Aḥmad.