AI-Baghawi reported on the authority of Islha ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas that he said:
"My father informed me that 'Abdullah ibn Jash told him on the day of Uhud, 'Can't you come so that we can supplicate?' He said, 'Then we moved into a comer and Sa'd made supplication saying, '0' my Lord! When we meet (the enemy) today let me come into confrontation with a man who is sternly furious whom I will fight in Your cause. Then let me overcome him so that I can kill him and seize his weapons.'
'Abdullah ibn Jash said Amen to this supplication and then said, '0'Allah! Let me meet a sternly furious man whom I will fight in Your cause and let him take hold of me and cut my nose and ears and when I will meet You I will says, 'This is in Your cause and in the cause of Your Messenger' and You will say, 'You have said the truth.'
Sa'd said, 'So the supplication of 'Abdullah was better than mine. I have seen him later in the day with his nose and ears hanged in a thread.' "
Az-Zubayr ibn Bakkar narrated:
"'Abddullah ibn Jash used to be called 'the one who was mutilated in Allah's cause'. His sword got broken in the Battle ofUhud and the Messenger of Allah
gave him a thin dry rod and it turned into a sword in his hand and he was nicknamed 'the thin dry rod.'
This sword was still existent until it was sold to Bagha, the Turkish, for two hundred dinar."
