• He next inserts a chapter on the mishaps and unforeseen incidents that may befall the bow or any related equipment, together with the ruling for each of them.
• He then devotes a chapter to jalb and janb: he begins by citing the hadiths that speak to the matter, follows them with the jurists’ explanations of the terms jalb and janb, and concludes with his own comments and preference among the views.
• After that he arranges several chapters specifying the various kinds of bows and the ancillary questions that arise from this classification.
• He continues with a chapter on the criteria by which victory is determined in horse and camel races, the differing opinions on the topic, and the position he considers stronger.
• He also includes a chapter on the types of weaponry, their benefits, and the preference among them; he opens it with the kinds of bows, the sub-categories within each kind, the materials from which they are made, and their distinctive features.
• He proceeds to a chapter weighing the merits of the hand-drawn bow and the foot-drawn bow, and closes it with a discussion of the various branches of horsemanship.

Part Four: On the number of the foundational principles of archery, its branches, and the knowledge that must be acquired.
He records the disagreement over how many foundational principles there are, enumerates the branches of the discipline and what the learner needs, then sets out the etiquette of shooting and the conduct an archer should observe.
• He concludes with a chapter on the qualities that bring archery to perfection, a chapter he reproduces in full.