The Provisions of Horses in Islamic Sharia

My Master’s Dissertation had addressed the provisions of horses in Islamic Sharia, and it contained a preliminary chapter and four other main chapters. My aim from the preliminary chapter is to present to the reader a brief history of the horse and its’ importance for Arabs before and after Islam. It also discussed the definition of Horse, words related to it, types and their names in terms of age. In the first chapter: I pointed at the Quran Verses that mentioned the horse directly or implicitly, besides the Hadith Al-Shareef the confirms the legality of owning a horse. After that, I pointed at some of the horse’s virtues in Islam and how it showed the importance of owning a horse. In the second chapter: I turned into some of the provisions on horse crossbred, where I pointed at the types of crossbreeding and its legality, beside the sayings of the scholars in the most important provisions related to horses, and the sanctity of accepting payment for switch-grass stallion, and the sanctity of purchasing and selling the stallion water, and the sanctity of selling or purchasing or the exception of the pony while still in the horse’s belly. I also found that It is not preferable to load the donkeys on the back of the horse, and the legality of horse castration according to scholars, only if it was for purposes beneficial to Muslims. The third chapter: I discussed the horse competitions and its legality, conditions and the winning criteria. Then I pointed at the names of the horses gathered in the horse betting, I also pointed at the legality of the prize when the conditions from Quran and the Sunnah are present. I also presented a glimpse of the modern horse competitions. The fourth chapter: It is the last chapter, and it consists of three sections: I discussed the provision of Horse Zakat in the first section, and I reached that the Zakat of the horse prepared for trading is legal, where the Zakat of the service horse or the owned horse is illegal. The second section: I presented the legality of horse meat eating with conditions and with the purity of its waste, and that is according to the perspectives of the scholars. The third section: It contained the prohibition of killing the horse that has no hope in recovery – accept in some exceptional cases and with conditions. It also contained the prohibition of horse and animal torture.