{"product_id":"al-muwatta-of-imam-malik-ibn-anas","title":"Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Ibn Anas- English Only","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-content woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"fusion-woocommerce-tab-title\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThird edition containing only the English translation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiwan Press are pleased to announce the third revised edition of this classic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAl-Muwaṭṭa’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first formulation of Islamic Law based on the behaviour of the people of Madinah during the time of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the great Companions,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAl-Muwatta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the blueprint for a just and radiant society: the earliest, clearest, cleanest record of salafi Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSahih\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the first of the sahih works, long pre-dating al-Bukhari and Muslim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAl-Bukhari regarded the transmission of Imam Malik narrating from Nafi‘ from ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, as being ‘the Golden Chain of Transmission’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbu Dawud, whose\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis another of the Six Books of hadith, added “then Malik, from az-Zuhri, from Salim, from his father [i.e. Ibn ‘Umar], then Malik, from Abu z-Zinad, from al-A‘raj, from Abu Hurayrah”, without mentioning anything from anyone other than Malik.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIbn Hajar said, “… s\u003cspan\u003eome imams say that they are unqualifiedly the soundest of isnads, such as az-Zuhri i.e. the hadith which az-Zuhri – who is better known as Ibn Shihab – narrated from Salim i.e. transmitting to him from Salim ibn ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar from his father. The school of Ahmad [ibn Hanbal] and Ibn Rahwayh is that this is unqualifiedly the soundest chain of transmission”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdh-Dhahabi held that, “The soundest of chains of transmission are those from\u003cspan\u003e az-Zuhri from Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyab from Abu Hurayrah” which are abundant in the \u003cem\u003eMuwatta\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Then those which come from Abu’z-Zinād from al-A‘raj from Abū Hurayrah.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsh-Shāfi‘ī said, “After the Book of Allah, there is no book on the face of the earth sounder than the book of Mālik.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Alā’ ad-Dīn Maghlaṭāy al-Ḥanafī said, “The first person to compile the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eṣaḥīḥ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas Mālik.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIbn Ḥajar said, “The book of Mālik is sound by all the criteria that are demanded as proofs in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003emursal\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003emunqaṭi‘\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand other types of transmission.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs-Suyūṭī followed Ibn Ḥajar’s judgement and said, “It is absolutely correct to say that the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuwaṭṭa’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis sound (\u003ci\u003eṣaḥīḥ\u003c\/i\u003e) without exception.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAl-Bukhārī and Muslim transmitted most of its\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eḥadīths\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand included them in their\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eṢaḥīḥ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecollections. The authors of the rest of the six books, the Imām of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eḥadīth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003escholars, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and others did the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuwaṭṭa’ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtains a record of the practice (\u003ci\u003e‘amal\u003c\/i\u003e) of the people of Madīnah of the first generations, a transmission of the ethos that permeated the city, and Imām Mālik’s painstaking clarification of the Sunna, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eḥadīths\u003c\/i\u003e, the practice and legal judgements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15.6 x 23.4 cm. 763 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eImām Mālik ibn anas\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(93 AH\/711 CE – 179 AH\/795 CE)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImam Mālik’s full name is Mālik ibn Anas ibn Mālik ibn Abī ‘Āmir al-Aṣbaḥī and he was related to Dhū Aṣbaḥ, a sub-tribe of Ḥimyar.  He was instructed in the learning and recitation of the Noble Qur’ān by Imām Nāfi‘ ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nu‘aym, the Imām of the reciters of Madīna and one of the ‘seven reciters’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the huge number of his teachers in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eḥadīth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efiqh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewere Nāfi‘, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003emawlā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar, and Ibn Shihāb az-Zuhrī. He sat to give\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efatwā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhen he was seventeen years old after seventy Imāms had testified that he was worthy to give\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efatwā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand teach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis own students included Imām ash-Shāfi‘ī and Imām Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ash-Shaybānī the Ḥanafī\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003emujtahid\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a great number of Imāms of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eḥadīth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efiqh,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand thus he is known as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eImām al-A’immah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e‘the Imām of the Imāms’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is recognised to be the subject of the hadith from Abū Hurayra î:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him said, ‘There will come a time when the people will beat the livers of their camels in search of knowledge and they will not find an\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘ālim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewith more knowledge than the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘ālim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof Madīna.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAisha Abdurrahman Bewley\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAisha Abdurrahman Bewley is one of today’s most prolific translators of classical Arabic works into English. For more than thirty-five years she has been concerned with making the contents of many classical Arabic works more accessible to English-speaking readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is co-translator, with her husband Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley, of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Noble Qur’an, a New Rendering of its Meaning in English\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther works include her translation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof Sidi Ali al-Jamal,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuhammad Messenger of Allah – ash-Shifa of Qadi ‘Iyad, Muhammad ibn Sa‘d’s Kitab at-Tabaqat al-Kabir,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand of her own authorship:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMu‘awiya – Restorer of the Muslim Faith\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Glossary of Islamic Terms\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIslam: The Empowering of Women\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuslim Women, a Biographical Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ilmStore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46322544214183,"sku":"BE-192","price":1300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/6852\/6759\/files\/MuwattaMalik_d60cdd02-8edc-4de1-90a6-4316e91cdc44.webp?v=1732972462","url":"https:\/\/ktijarat.com\/products\/al-muwatta-of-imam-malik-ibn-anas","provider":"kidsmessagestore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}