3 – footraces;
4 – swimming contests;
5 – wrestling matches;
6 – hand-to-hand grappling;
7 – bouts with sword, spear, and cudgel;
8 – competitions with slings;
9 – weight-lifting contests;
10 – staff fighting (mithāqafah);
11 – competitions in memorizing the Quran, hadith, jurisprudence, and other disciplines, as well as in solving scholarly problems;
12 – archery matches in which the prize is for the farthest shot, not for hitting the target.

In each of these matters he records the divergent opinions of the scholars of the four schools.

Next he devotes a chapter to tracing the evidentiary bases of those viewpoints in the contested questions, remarking: “The school of Abū Ḥanīfah is the most expansive in this field, followed by the school of al-Shāfiʿī; the school of Mālik is the most restrictive, followed by the school of Aḥmad.”

He then includes another chapter refining the schools’ positions on how the stake is to be offered, detailing what forms are lawful and what forms are forbidden.