in one of the arrows, or the first hits in one of them, he is the winner.

Section: The third [type] is for them to say: 'Whichever of us hits five out of twenty, he is the winner.' So whenever one of them hits five out of twenty and the other has not hit them, the first is the winner. If each one of them hits five, or neither of them hits five, there is no winner between them. This is in the meaning of 'muhattah' (deduction), in that it is necessary to complete the round of shots as long as there is benefit in its completion, and if it is devoid of benefit, its completion is not required. Whenever each one of them hits five, its completion is not required, and there is no winner between them. If they shoot sixteen shots and neither of them hits anything, its completion is not required, and there is no winner between them; because the most that can be expected is that one of them hits all four, and victory is not achieved by that. Our companions differed; Abu al-Khattab said: It is essential to have knowledge of the [type of] shooting: is it 'mubadarah' (competing in speed), 'muhattah' (deduction), or 'mufadalah' (surpassing)? This is because the purpose of the archers differs; some of them have many hits at the beginning but not at the end, and some are the opposite. Therefore, it is necessary to specify that so that he knows what he has entered into. The manifest view of the Qadi is that it is not needed to stipulate this, because the requirement of 'nidal' (shooting contest) is 'mubadarah' (competing in speed), and whoever races to the hit is the winner. If he stipulates that the victory is for the one who hits five out of twenty, and one races to it, then the condition has been met. There are two positions for the companions of al-Shafi'i, like these two.

Section: If they stipulate hitting a [specific] place of the target, provided that what is close to one person's hit cancels out what is far from the other's hit, and it happens, and then one of them surpasses the other by what they stipulated, he is the winner. The Qadi mentioned this, and it is the school of al-Shafi'i; because this is a type of 'muhattah' (deduction). If one of them hits a place that is a span away from the target, and the other hits a place that is less than a span away from the target, it cancels out the first. If the first hits the target, he cancels out the second. But if the second hits the circle that is in the target, he does not cancel out the first with it, because the entire target is a place for hitting, so one of them does not surpass his companion if they both hit it, unless they stipulate that.