Ahmad’s version: “where is your houtami armor?”

Imam Ahmad related, from Soufyan, from Ibn Abi Najih, from his father, from a man who heard Ali: “I wished to ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) his daughter and said to myself: I have nothing: how? Then I recalled his kinship tie and proposed her to him. He said: Do you have anything? I said: no. He said: Where is your houtami armor which I gave you on such and such a day? I said: it is with me. He said: give it me. And I gave it him.” Thus Ahmad related it in his Musnad, and it contains an unnamed man.

Abu Dawud related, from Ishaq ibn Ismail at-Talaqani, from Abda, from Said, from Ayyoub, from Ikrima, from Ibn Abbas: when Ali married Fatima (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to him: “Give her something.” He said: I have nothing. He said: “Where is your houtami armor?” And an-Nasaï related it, from Haroun ibn Ishaq, from Abda ibn Sulayman, from Said ibn Abi Aruba, from Ayyoub as-Sakhtiyani.

Abu Dawud related likewise, from Kathir ibn Ubayd al-Himsi, from Abu Haywa, from Chou’ayb ibn Abi Hamza, that Ghaylan ibn Anas of the people of Hims related to him, that Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Thawban related to him, from a Companion of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): when Ali married Fatima, daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), he wished to enter upon her, but the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prevented him until he gave her something. He said: “O Messenger of Allah, I have nothing.” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to him: “Give her your armor.” He gave her his armor, then entered upon her.