[Shaykh] ‘Abdullahi al-Umari wrote a letter to Imam Malik [to isolate himself], so Imam Malik responded to his letter by saying: “Indeed Allah has distributed righteous deeds among His servants just as He distributed their provision among them. So perhaps a man may find it easy to perform an abundance of prayers while finding it …
One of the first teachers of Imam Malik was Shaykh ibn Hurmuz, he was a Mawla of Abu Hurayrah, kind of like how Imam Nafi was a Mawla to ibn ‘Umar. In this way he was employed by Abu Hurayrah. He also narrates many Hadith from him, and it is for this reason he was …
Jafar the son of Sulayman was the Abbasid (descendants of Abbas) governor of Madinah. Jafar flogged Imam Malik, to the point that they knocked him out cold. He was then carried outside in this state and was set up on a donkey to be paraded around Madinah. As soon as Imam Malik woke up and …
To begin, let us look at the root of the family knowledge and how it came to be that the family of Imam Malik became known as the family of the learned. Firstly, they were a very well off family at a time and thus money was hardly of concern for the most part of …
Quick facts concerning Imam Malik ibn Anas: 1} Imam Malik wrote out over 100,000 Ahadith. 2} Imam Malik compiled his most famous book al-Muwatta in 40 years. 3} Imam Malik started off with 10,000 Ahadith in the Muwatta, however he ended up putting 1,720 within it. 4} The book al-Muwatta was approved of by 70 …
Imam ash-Shafi’i رحمه الله made the following 2 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; …
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Shaykh al-Haytham ibn Jamil {May Allah have Mercy upon them} said: الإمام مالك أنه سئل عن ثماني وأربعين مسألة فقال في اثنين وثلاثين منها: لا أدري “I heard Imam Malik {May Allah have Mercy upon him} being asked about 48 questions and he replied to 32 of them by saying, ‘I don’t …
“Abu Jafar had a very esteem place in knowledge among the scholars, both before and after the Caliphate. He was the main person who insisted upon Imam Malik to write the Muwatta. He once said, O Abu ‘Abdullah —> {Imam Malik}, today there is no one who is more knowledgeable on the face on …
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, …