Madinan Teachers
Imam Malik ibn Anas, Allah have mercy upon him said: “For 13 years I sat from the time of the Fajr prayer to sunset [Maghrib] with various teachers. I did this in order to attain knowledge from various Shuyukh [teachers/scholars/Muhadithin/Fuqaha] in the city of Madinah. I would attend the circles of different teachers, a different …
Malikis & Dogs #3
The Ruling on Selling Dogs in the Maliki School Answered by Shaykh Rami Nsour Question: I bought a dog a while back, but now my parents want me to get rid of it. I heard that money from selling a dog is haram. Is this the Maliki view? Answer: According to the Maliki madhab, and …
Malikis & Dogs #2
Is it Permissible to Keep a Watchdog Inside The House? Answered by Shaykh Rami Nsour Question: Is one allowed to have a watch dog inside the house in the Maliki school? What are the conditions for having such a dog, if any? Are there specific criteria that need to be met concerning the *need* of …
Malikis & Dogs
By Mufti Musa Furber The following is related to a discussion thread about Mālikīs keeping dogs as house pets that got axed (and for good reasons). Since I spent a lot of time working on a few papers related to dogs, I thought I would paste in some things from my notes: The four extent …
Imam Layth
Imam Abu Idris al-Shafi’i al-Qurayshi al-Hashimi, Rahimahullah, said: “[Imam] Layth was a greater jurist [Faqih] than [Imam] Malik [ibn Anas, Rahimahullah], but his students [didn’t preserve his knowledge] and thus wasted him.” ~ The Lives of the Noble Figures – al-Siyar A`lam al-Nubala’, 8/156 – The Importance of Preservation of Knowledge – – The Mufti …
Our Hopeﷺ, Our Prideﷺ, Our Masterﷺ
Our Hopeﷺ, Our Prideﷺ, Our Masterﷺ Honor the Prophetﷺ while you still roam the lands And hope that the Prophetﷺ will honor you After you lay underneath the land Raise the blessed Banner of the Prophetﷺ on this day And hope that the Prophetﷺ will call you To stand beneath his banner on that Day …
The Orphan Prophet Raised in Allāh’s Courtﷺ
The Nafs is inclined to extremist tendencies by nature Islam came to subdue those extremist tendencies The one who uses the outer shell of Islam To feed the whims and desires of his Nafs Is bereft of its expansive inner dimensions Subjected and enslaved to literalism and forms Bereft of its mercy and metamorphic properties …
Waterless Desolate Land
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Sa’id that Sa’id ibn al-Musayyib used to say: “Whoever prays on waterless, desolate land; an angel prays on his right and an angel prays on his left. When he calls both the Adhan and the Iqama for the prayer, or calls out the Iqama, angels like …
Paying Due Respect
In 174 A.H Harun-ar-Rashid, arrived in Madinah with his two sons Amin and Ma’mun. He summoned Imam Malik to his inner court to deliver a lecture on the Muwatta’. The Imam refused to comply with his orders. Arriving in the inner court, he told the Caliph, ‘Rashid! [You want me to teach] Traditions in a …