CHAPTER: RACE BETWEEN HORSES AND THEIR TRAINING FOR THE COMPETITION
No. 4610
It has been narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar that the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) had a race of the horses which had been especially prepared for the purpose from Hafya' to Thaniyyat al-Wada' (the latter being the winning post), and of those which had not been trained from Thaniyya to the mosque of Banu Zuraiq, and Ibn Umar was among those who took part in this race.
No. 4611
This tradition has been handed down through another chain of transmitters with the addition of the following words from Abdullah b. 'Umar:" I came first in the race and my horse jumped into the mosque with me."