~ The School of Madinah. The Scholars say that the principles of Imam Malik in Fiqh were originally the principles of Sa’id ibn al-Musayyab the leader of Tabi’un in his time, the Imam of Madinah, the son in law of the Sahabi Abu Hurayrah {d. 94 AH}. Sa’id ibn al-Musayyab is known to have been …
Qadi Iyyad, also known as Abu al-Fadl Iyyad ibn Amir ibn Musa ibn Iyyad ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullahi ibn Musa ibn Iyyad al-Yahsubi as-Sabti أبو الفضل عياض بن موسى بن عياض بن عمرون بن موسى بن عياض بن محمد بن عبد الله بن موسى بن عياض اليحصبي السبتي ~ Qadi Iyyad was born in the …
Abu Hurayrah reported that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم said, “Madinah is a sanctuary from that place to that. Its trees should not be cut and no heresy should be innovated nor any sin should be committed in it, and whoever innovates in it a heresy or commits sins {bad …
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Imam Malik رحمه الله said, “My mother would dress me up in the clothes of the scholars while I still was a young boy and she would tell me, ‘Go to the Masjid and seek knowledge from Imam ar-Rabiʿah رحمه الله , study his manners before you take from his knowledge.’” {This book in Arabic …
Imam Abu Hanifa (rahmatullahi ‘alayhi) said, “My eyes have never fallen on anyone faster in understanding, correct in answering, and examining as Imam Malik.” Imam al-Shafi’i (rahmatullahi ‘alayhi) said, “Knowledge is encompassed by three people: Malik bin Anas, al-Laith bin Sa’ad and Sufyan bin ‘Uyaina.” and “When the scholars of knowledge are mentioned, Imam Malik …
An interesting note: Assalamu alaikum Statements made by Ibn Taymiyya (rahmatullahi alaihi) on the scholars of Madina and the Maliki Madhhab; as good fortune would have it, he was not a follower of the Maliki Madhhab. This, of course, means that this is a more objective view and that he is not influenced by taqlid.
Imam Malik said, “It was not a part of people’s fatwas to say ‘This is halal and this is haram’, but they used to say, ‘I disapprove of this and would not do it myself,’ and people used to be content with that.” In another place, “They didn’t use to say ‘halal’ nor ‘haram’ except …