The Messenger of Allah ﷺ took up a sword on the day of Uhud and said, "Who will take this sword from me, with its right?"The men stretched out their hands, each one saying, "I will, I will."He said, "Who will take it with its right?"At that the people held back. Then Simak bin Kharasha, Abu Dujana, said, "I will take it with its right."So he took it and split open the heads of the polytheists with it.
أن رسول الله ﷺ أخذ سيفا يوم أحد فقال: من يأخذ منى هذا السيف بحق؟ فبسطوا أيديهم كل إنسان منهم يقول: أنا، أنا قال: فمن يأخذه بحقه؟ قال: فأحجم القوم، فقال سماك بن خرشة أبو دجانة: أنا آخذه بحقه، قال: فأخذه ففلق به هام المشركين.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Virtues (2470), from Abu Bakr bin Abu Shayba, who said, Affan narrated to us, Hammad bin Salama narrated to us, Thabit narrated to us, from Anas, and he related it.Abu Dujana was a brave man who used to swagger when battle came, and whenever he tied on a certain red headband of his, wrapping it around his head before the people, it meant that he was about to fight. So when he took the sword from the hand of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he brought out that headband and tied it around his head, and began to strut between the two ranks.Muhammad bin Ishaq said, Jafar bin Abdullah bin Aslam, the freedman of Umar bin Khattab, narrated to me, from a man of the Ansar from Banu Salama, who said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, when he saw Abu Dujana strutting, "That is a way of walking that Allah hates, except in a setting like this one."Ibn Ishaq in his Sirah (505), and Sirat bin Hisham (2/67), where the man is not named, though Bayhaqi in Dalail (3/233) named him as Muawiya bin Mabad bin Kaab bin Malik, except that the chain is mudal.As for what is reported from Zubayr bin Awwam, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ displayed a sword on the day of Uhud and said, 'Who will take this sword by its right?' So I stood and said, I will, Messenger of Allah..." and he related it at length, this is daif. It was narrated by Bazzar in Kashf Astar (1787) and by Bayhaqi in Dalail (3/232–233), both from the hadith of Amr bin Asim Kilabi, who said, Ubaydullah bin Wazi bin Thawr narrated to me, who said, Hisham bin Urwa narrated to me, from his father, from Zubayr bin Awwam, and he related it.Bazzar said, "We do not know of anyone who narrated it with this chain except Zubayr, and we do not know it except by this chain, Ibn Wazi being alone in transmitting it."I say, Ubaydullah bin Wazi bin Thawr Kullabi Basri is majhul, no one has affirmed his reliability, and no one narrated from him except his grandson Amr bin Asim Kilabi, and Ibn Hibban did not mention him among his trustworthy narrators. As for Haythami's statement in Majma (6/109), "Bazzar narrated it and its men are trustworthy," this requires scrutiny.