Enlist against them the cavalry and infantry of your army. Thus, everyone who rides or walks in disobedience to Allah belongs to the army of Iblīs.

These five rulings likewise apply to riding:

Obligatory riding includes riding on military campaigns, in jihad, and for an obligatory Hajj.

Recommended riding includes riding for the recommended forms of those activities, to seek knowledge, to maintain ties of kinship, and to show kindness to one’s parents. There is disagreement concerning the stay at ʿArafāt: is it better to remain mounted or to be on the ground? The correct assessment is that remaining mounted is better when it serves a benefit, such as teaching the rites or enabling others to follow one’s example, helps one supplicate, and causes no harm to the mount.

Forbidden riding is riding in disobedience to Allah, Almighty and Majestic.

Disliked riding is riding for idle amusement and play, and for anything better left undone.

Permissible riding is riding that entails neither missing out on a reward nor incurring a sin.

These, then, are fifty categories relating to ten things: the heart, the tongue, hearing, sight, the nose, the mouth, the hand, the foot, the private parts, and sitting astride a mount.