– He next devoted a chapter to showing that cowardice and courage are both innate dispositions and cultivated traits.
– This was followed by a chapter distinguishing strength from courage.
– After that came the ranks of courage and the brave, together with the consequences that flow from them.

Finally, he closed the work with a verse from the Book of Allah: “O you who believe! When you meet an enemy host, stand firm and remember Allah often so that you may prosper; and obey Allah and His Messenger, and do not dispute with one another lest you lose heart and your resolve weaken; and be patient—indeed, Allah is with the patient” (Quran 8:45–46). He remarked, “Allah commanded the combatants to uphold five things,” and then he listed them. He continued, “These five are the pillars upon which the pavilion of victory is erected; if any one of them collapses, victory diminishes in proportion to what has been lost …”—and with that the book ends.

8 – Between Yusuf b. Ahmad, the copyist of the book, and Ibn al-Qayyim in al-Furūsiyyah al-Muḥammadiyyah.

Because the copyist—so it appears—had long experience, broad involvement, and proven expertise in warfare and combat, and had even authored a treatise on the subject, he recorded a number of observations and criticisms of Ibn al-Qayyim’s Furūsiyyah. Although they revolve mainly around his contention that the title does not match the book’s contents and that calling it “The Legal Rulings of Horsemanship” would be more fitting than simply “Horsemanship,” they are nonetheless beneficial on the whole, despite the severity and bluntness of his phrasing.

We shall cite a selection of his remarks that set out these critiques: