He thereupon removed it, folded it, and handed it to him.

People said to the man, “How could you ask the Prophet ﷺ for it when you know he never turns a petitioner away?” He replied, “By Allah, I did not ask for it to wear it; I asked for it so that it would be my shroud.” He kept it with him, and it eventually became his burial shroud. In this episode the Prophet ﷺ preferred the man to himself, giving him the cloak even though he apparently needed it.

5/568 – Abu Musa — may Allah be pleased with him — reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “When the Ashʿarites run out of supplies during a campaign, or when the food of their families in Madinah becomes scarce, they gather whatever they have in a single cloth and then distribute it equally among themselves from one vessel. They are of me, and I am of them.” Agreed upon.

“Armalū” means their provisions were depleted or close to depletion.