Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.

Book 20, Hajj, discusses the pilgrimage rituals, obligations, and etiquettes.

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 265

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 265 Yahya related to me from Malik that he asked Ibn Shihab about making a condition in the hajj that one could leave ihram at any place where an obstacle befell one and he said, “Does anyone do that?’ and disapproved of it. Malik was asked whether a man could […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 266

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 266 Malik said, concerning a woman who had never been on hajj, “If she doesn’t have a mahram, or if she has, but he cannot come with her, she does not abandon Allah’s making of the hajj obligatory for her. Let her go in a group of women.” Muwatta Malik: […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 267

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 267 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az- Zubayr that A’isha umm al-muminin used to say, “Someone performing hajj at-tamattu who does not have a sacrificial animal fasts (three days) from the time he enters ihram for the hajj till the Day of Arafa, […]