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Overview
Tadmir is feeding a horse until it is fat and strong, then reducing its feed, stabling it and covering it with cloths until it sweats, so its flesh lightens and it can run. 1
Definition
Damr is leanness and a tucked belly; the Arab period for tadmir is forty days, and the place of training is called a training ground. 1
Related terms
Racing (sibaq and musabaqa) has the same sense, and sabq with a vowel is the stake raced for; tadmir is sometimes done to win a race. 1
Ruling
Most jurists allow tadmir without restriction, and recommend it for horses kept for war. 2 The hadith of Ibn Umar: the Prophet raced horses that had been trained from al-Hafya to Thaniyyat al-Wada, and untrained ones from Thaniyyat al-Wada to the mosque of Banu Zurayq, and Ibn Umar raced among them. This answers the objection that training is unlawful for its hardship. 2
Cross-reference
Whether training is a condition of racing, and the difference of distances between trained and untrained horses, belongs in the entry on racing. 2
People and things also explored
Sabq (contests and races)· Ahl al-Harb (the people at war with the Muslims, their status and the rules that govern dealings with them)· Anfal (spoils and the other gains taken from the enemy, and their divisions)· The angels at Badr· Dissuading others from fighting· Ghanima (spoils of war)· Hudna (truce with non-Muslims)· Hujna (hybridness, in the fiqh sense: spoils shares and speech)
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.5297
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.5298
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islam.museum contributors. “Tadmir (training horses for a race or a campaign)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/tadmir-training-horses/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.