Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Khalid bin Zaid (may Allah be pleased with him) says that I was an expert archer. Whenever Hazrat Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by me, he would say, "O Khalid! Come, let us practice archery." One day I showed some reluctance, so he said, "O Khalid (may Allah be pleased with him)! Come, I will tell you a hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Allah Almighty will admit three people into Paradise because of a single arrow: its maker, if he intended good in making it; its shooter; and the one who hands it to the shooter.' There are three playful acts in which there is reward: a man training his horse, a man having relations with his wife, and a man shooting an arrow from a bow and straightening it. Whoever learns archery and then abandons it has shown ingratitude for this blessing."