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 36, Judgements, discusses legal verdicts and the administration of justice.

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 61

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 61 Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim ibn Muhammad heard Makhul ad-Dimashqi ask al-Qasim ibn Muhammad about the life pension and what people said about it. Al- Qasim ibn Muhammad said, “I have only come upon people who keep to the conditions they […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 62

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 62 Malik related to me from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar inherited the house of Hafsa bint Umar. He said, “Hafsa gave lodging to the daughter of Zayd ibn al-Khattab for as long as she lived. When the daughter of Zayd died, Abdullah ibn Umar took possession of the dwelling […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 63

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 63 Malik related to me from Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman from Yazid, the mawla of al-Munbaith that Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani said, “A man came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and asked him about finds. He said, ‘Memorize the characteristics of […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 64

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 64 Malik related to me from Ayyub ibn Musa from Muawiya ibn Abdullah ibn Badr al-Juhani that his father informed him that he stopped with a people on the way to Syria and he found a purse which had eighty dinars in it. He mentioned that to Umar ibn al-Khattab. […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 65

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 65 Malik related to me from Nafi that a man found something and went to Abdullah ibn Umar and said to him, “I have found something. What do you think I should do about it?” Abdullah ibn Umar said to him, “Publicise it!” He said, “I have done so.” He […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 66

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 66 Yahya said that he heard Malik say, “What is done in our community about a slave who finds something and uses it before the term which is set for finds has been reached, and that is a year, is that it is against his person. Either his master gives […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 67

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 67 Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said from Sulayman ibn Yasar that Thabit ibn ad-Dahhak al-Ansari told him that he had found a camel at Harra, so he hobbled it and mentioned it to Umar ibn al-Khattab and Umar ordered him to make it known three times. Thabit […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 68

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 68 Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Umar ibn al-Khattab said while he was leaning his back against the Kaba, “Whoever takes a stray is astray.” وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، قَالَ وَهُوَ مُسْنِدٌ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 69

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 69 Malik related to me that he heard Ibn Shihab say, “The stray camels in the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab were numerous and left alone. No one touched them until the time of Uthman ibn Affan. He ordered that they be publicised and then sold, and if the owner […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 70

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 70 Malik related to me from Said ibn Amr Shurahbil ibn Said ibn Sad ibn Ubada from his father that his father said, ”Sad ibn Ubada went out with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in one of his raids and his mother was […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 71

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 71 Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father from A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that a man said to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, “My mother died suddenly, and I […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 72

Muwatta Malik: Book 36, Hadith 72 Malik related to me that he heard that a man of the Ansar from the tribe of Banu al-Harith ibn al-Khazraj, gave sadaqa to his parents and then they died. Their son inherited the property he had given them and it was palm-trees. He asked the Messenger of Allah, […]