The Virtue of Maintaining Horses, Racing and Sharp Shooting Contests

Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 1|Chapter 22
Al-Kāfi

Volume 5, Book 1, Chapter 22

The Virtue of Maintaining Horses, Racing and Sharp Shooting Contests

9- وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) لَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ مُؤْتَةَ كَانَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَى فَرَسٍ فَلَمَّا الْتَقَوْا نَزَلَ عَنْ فَرَسِهِ فَعَرْقَبَهَا بِالسَّيْفِ فَكَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ عَرْقَبَ فِي الإسْلامِ.
9. He the narrator of the previous Hadith has narrated from through the chain of his narrators who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, has said that on the day of Mutah, Ja’far Ibn Abi Talib had a horse. When they came face to face with the enemy he disembarked from his horse and cut the legs of his horse with his sword, and it was the first such incident in al-Islam.”
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (18/389)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī