Imam ash-Shafi’i made the following two statements, “After the Book of Allah, there is no book on the face of the earth sounder than the book of Malik.” “No book has ever been placed upon the face of the earth that is closer to the Qur’an than the book of Malik.” {Tanwir al-Hawalik; Hilyatul’ Awliyah; …
[The student of Imam Malik] = Ibn Wahb said: “Imam Malik looked towards al-’Attan ibn Khalid and said: ‘It has reached me that you {al-‘Attan} take knowledge from this one.’ I said, ‘Of course.’ So Imam Malik said, ‘[I ask because] = We only take Hadith from people of Fiqh.’ Imam Malik then said: ‘I …
Imam al-Qarafi al-Maliki رحمه الله said: “And beware of doing what some students do when they reason directly from the Hadith, and yet they don’t know their soundness, let alone what has been mentioned by the Imams concerning the subtleties involved in them; by doing this, they went astray and led others astray. And whoever …
The first city to collect and compile Hadith was Madinatul’ Munawarrah ~ The Illuminated City. Imam az-Zuhri was one of Imam Malik’s teachers and he would go over the Ahadith with the Imam to make sure he recited everything correctly. Kind of like, how Imam Malik would check his Quranic recitation with Imam Nafi. The …
Imam Jalaluddin as-Suyuti related that Imam Sufyan bin Uyaynah {Allah have Mercy upon them} said: “May Allah have mercy upon Imam Malik. He only narrated authentic Ahadith, he would never report anything if it did not come from a reliable one.Thus, in my opinion, Madinah in his absence, has only had a decrease in knowledge …
Imam al-Bukhari (رحمة الله عليه) said that the soundest of all chains of hadith transmission was “Malik, from Nafi’, from Ibn ‘Umar.” The scholars of hadith call it the Golden Chain, and there are eighty narrations with this chain in the Muwatta’. Imam Malik (رحمة الله عليه) composed al-Muwatta’ in the course of forty years, …
Here are the Sahabah رضي الله عنهم who related the most Hadith. May we be able to memorize as many as possible. Ameen! ================ 1. Abu Hurayrah {Abdur-Rahman} d.59 AH at the age of 78; he narrated 5,374 Ahadith. The number of his students reaches 800. 2. Abdullah Ibn Abbas d.68 AH at the age …