Wear waist-wrappers and upper garments, put on sandals, discard leather socks and trousers, throw off stirrups, and leap onto your mounts in a single bound. Stick to the ways of Maad, shoot at targets, and abandon soft living and the styles of the non-Arabs. Beware of silk, for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade it and said, "Do not wear any silk except this much," and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ indicated with two of his fingers.
حدثنا يزيد حدثنا عاصم عن أبي عثمان النهدي
اتزروا وارتدوا وانتعلوا وألقوا الخفاف والسراويلات وألقوا الركب وانزوا نزوا وعليكم بالمعدية وارموا الأغراض وذروا التنعم وزي العجم وإياكم والحرير فإن رسول الله ﷺ قد نهى عنه وقال لا تلبسوا من الحرير إلا ما كان هكذا وأشار رسول الله ﷺ بإصبعيه
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Its isnad is sahih. Asim is Ibn Sulayman al-Ahwal.Rukub (with two dammas after the first letters) is the plural of rikab, meaning stirrups. He means that they should give up relying on stirrups to mount their horses, and instead leap up, that is, jump onto the horses with a spring, because of the strength and vigor involved in that."Hold to the way of Maad" means roughness in dress and in living, in imitation of Maad bin Adnan, the forefather of the Arabs. They were people of austerity and coarseness in their manner of life, for in soft living comes ease and delicacy, which is then followed by weakness and abasement.See 269, 243.