Muwatta Malik (Qasim)

Hadith Authentication: [وأخرجه البخاري 2849، ومسلم 96/1871، من حديث مالك به]
Jurisprudential Points:
➊ Keeping horses and making other preparations for jihad with the intention of striving in the path of Allah is a deed of great reward and merit.
➋ This hadith is among the signs of prophethood.
➌ Jihad will continue until the Day of Judgment.
➍ In this hadith, "khayr" (good) refers to reward and war booty.
➎ (In jihad) the horse is superior to other animals. Also see: [ح 178]

Hadith Commentary:
In this too there is a prophecy which has come true word for word, and this is precisely the translation of the chapter heading.
Even today, despite the abundance of modern weaponry, the horse still holds importance in the army.

Hadith Commentary: Benefits and Issues: To deny even a single verse of the Noble Qur’an is disbelief and apostasy. This man had merely denied the style of recitation (usloob al-qira’ah) of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam); he had not denied the surah itself. However, since Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (radi Allahu anhu) had recited this surah to the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) in this style and manner, he (ibn Mas’ud) considered this act as tantamount to denying the Book of Allah. Furthermore, this act was committed by the man while he was in a state of intoxication from drinking alcohol, in which a person’s senses and awareness are not intact. Therefore, the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) did not hold him accountable for this act, but only had the prescribed punishment (hadd) for drinking alcohol carried out by the governor of the city or with his permission, because the hadd cannot be implemented without the permission of the governor (amir) or judge (qadi).

Benefits and Issues:
That is, perpetual goodness and blessing have been placed in the forelocks of the horses of the mujahideen.
The explanation of this goodness and blessing of the horses is given in other narrations as reward and war booty. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Jihad, Chapter: Jihad continues with the righteous and the wicked, Hadith: 2852)
That is, by performing jihad on horses, one attains reward as well as war booty, and this benefit will continue until the Day of Judgment.
Even today, in the era of Kalashnikovs and tanks, horses are very useful, especially in mountainous and forested regions.