Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 20583 — What is mentioned on the virtue

Khalid bin Zayd said: I was a skilled archer. Whenever Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by me, he would say: "O Khalid, come, let us practise archery." One day I was slow, and he said: "O Khalid, come, let me tell you a hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty will admit three people to Paradise because of a single arrow: its maker, if he intended good in making it; the one who shoots it; and the one who hands it to the archer. There are only three permissible amusements: a man training his horse, a man playing with his wife, and shooting arrows from a bow. Whoever gives up archery after learning it, it is a blessing that he has abandoned, or he has been ungrateful for it."