Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The first to advise the Prophet (peace be upon him) that two shares be allotted for a horse was Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him).

Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Two shares for a horse, one share for a mule-bred horse, and nothing for a mule."

Ibn Al-Aqmar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: In Syria, the horses reached the enemy during the day, and the mule-bred horses arrived at noon the next day. So a man from Himyar, Mundhir bin Abi Himsah, said: "I will not consider them equal." Thus, he gave preference to the horses, and he wrote about this to Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), so he said: "May his mother weep for him, he has done absolutely right, act accordingly."

Juwaybir bin Sa'id, may Allah have mercy on him, said: A letter from our master Umar bin Abdul Aziz, may Allah have mercy on him, came to us in Khurasan, in which it was written: "I have been informed that some of your governors have reduced the shares of mules' offspring among the horses, whereas it has reached me through a trustworthy narrator from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, that he assigned two shares each for all horses, both Arabian and mules' offspring. So distribute in the same way as the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, did. Allah Almighty has said in the Qur'an: «والخيل والبغال» , and by my oath, mules' offspring are not behind Arabian horses in effort. And peace be upon you."

Al-Awza'i, may Allah have mercy on him, said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to allocate shares for horses, and he would not allocate a share for more than two horses for one person, even if he had ten horses.

Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to Sayyiduna Abu Ubaidah bin Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him): "For a horse, two shares; for two horses, four shares; and for the rider, one share, making a total of five shares. And more than two horses are considered extra animals."

The same message was written by Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) to Abu Ubaidah (may Allah be pleased with him) in another letter as well.

Sulaiman bin Yasar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: When Malik bin Abdullah Khath'ami was asked about the share of mule-bred horses, he said: "I will not assign a share to a mule-bred horse; the share is only for an Arab horse."

Sulaiman bin Yasar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Bint Qurazah, who was the wife of Sayyiduna Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with them both), sent a recommendation to Malik bin Abdullah for her slave to be given a share of a mule-bred horse. When the horse was presented, he said: "Are you forcing me to approve this? I will never approve it."

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to us: "Any slave who fights without his master, assign him a share equal to that of a free man, thus a share equal to a free man was assigned even for one of our slaves."