Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 1 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had wanted to take two pieces of wood to strike them together to gather people for the prayer, and Abdullah ibn Zayd al-Ansari, then of the […]
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 3, Prayer, covers the methods, conditions, and regulations of performing the daily prayers.
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 2 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Ata ibn Yazid al-Laythi from Abu Said al-Khudri that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “When you hear the adhan, repeat what the muadhdhin says.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 3 Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla of Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar-Rahman, from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “If people knew what was in the adhan and the first row of the prayer and […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 4 Yahya related to me from Malik from al-Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Yaqub from his father and Ishaq ibn Abdullah that they informed him that they heard Abu Hurayra say, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘When the iqama is called for […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 5 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd arRahman ibn Abdullah ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abu Sasaca al-Ansari, and later al-Mazini, that his father told him that Abu Said al-Khudri had said to him, “I see that you love sheep and the desert. When you are among your sheep […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 6 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu’z-Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “When the call to prayer is made Shaytan retreats, passing wind, so that he will not hear the adhan. When the adhan […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 7 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Hazim ibn Dinar that Sahl ibn Sad as-Saidi said, “There are two times when the gates of heaven are opened, and few who make supplication have it returned to them unanswered. They are at the timeof the adhan, and in a […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 8 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the muadhdhin came to Umar ibn al-Khattab to call him to the subh prayer and found him sleeping, so he said, “Prayer is better than sleep,” and Umar ordered him to put that in the adhan for subh […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 9 Yahya related to me from Malik from his paternal uncle Abu Suhayl ibn Malik that his uncle’s father said, “I recognise nothing nowadays of what I saw the people (i.e. the companions of the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace ) doing except the call to […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 10 Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Umar heard the iqama while he was in Baqi, so he increased his pace of walking to the mosque. وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ، سَمِعَ الإِقَامَةَ، وَهُوَ بِالْبَقِيعِ فَأَسْرَعَ الْمَشْىَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ . Muwatta Malik: […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 11 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar called the adhan on a cold and windy night and included the phrase, “Do the prayer in shelter.” Then he said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to orderthe muadhdhin […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 3, Hadith 12 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that on a journey Abdullah ibn Umar did no more than the iqama, except for subh, when he called both the adhan and the iqama. Abdullah ibn Umar used to say, “The adhan is for an imam whom people join .” […]