Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 71 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar divorced one of his wives in the house of Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he was on the way to the mosque. He went another route from […]
Step into one of the earliest and most revered collections of Hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, the Muwatta’ of Imam Malik. This foundational text presents the established practices of the people of Medina, which Imam Malik considered a living continuity of the Sunnah. Here, you will explore a masterful blend of prophetic narrations, the rulings of the Companions, and the consensus of early scholars. Consequently, studying the Muwatta offers unparalleled insight into the Fiqh of the Salaf and the origins of the Maliki school of thought.
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 72 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn al-Musayyab was asked who was obliged to pay the rent for a woman whose husband divorced her while she was in a leased house. Said ibn al-Musayyab said, “Her husband is obliged to pay it.” Someone […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 73 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Yazid, the mawla of al-Aswad ibn Sufyan from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf from Fatima bint Qays that Abu Amr ibn Hafs divorced her absolutely while he was away in Syria. His agent sent her some barley and […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 74 Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Ibn Shihab say, “The woman who is absolutely divorced does not leave her house until she is free to remarry. She has no maintenance unless she is pregnant. In that circumstance the husband spends on her until she gives birth.” […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 75 Malik said, “What is done among us when a slave divorces a slave- girl when she is a slave and then she is set free, is that her idda is the idda of a slave-girl, and her being set free does not change her idda whether or not he […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 76 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said and from Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn Qusayt al-Laythi that Said ibn al-Musayyab said, ”Umar ibn al-Khattab said, ‘If a woman is divorced and has one or two periods and then stops menstruating, she must wait nine months. If it […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 77 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn al-Musayyab said, “Divorce belongs to men, and women have the idda.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ الطَّلاَقُ لِلرِّجَالِ وَالْعِدَّةُ لِلنِّسَاءِ . Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 77 […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 78 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Said ibn al- Musayyab said, “The idda of the woman who bleeds constantly is a year.” Malik said, “What is done among us about a divorced woman whose periods stop when her husband divorces her is that she waits […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 79 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Ali ibn Abi Talib said about the two arbiters about whom Allah, the Exalted, said,”If you fear a breach between the two, appoint an arbiter from his people, and an arbiter from her people. If they desire to […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 80 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab, Abdullah ibn Umar, Abdullah ibn Masud, Salim ibn Abdullah, al-Qasim ibn Muhammad, Ibn Shihab,and Sulayman ibn Yasar all said, “If a man has vowed to divorce his wife before marrying her and then he breaks […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 81 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah ibn Masud said that there was nothing binding on someone who said, “Every woman I marry is divorced,” if he did not name a specific tribe or woman. Malik said, “That is the best of what I […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 29, Hadith 82 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Said ibn al- Musayyab said, “If someone marries a woman and cannot have intercourse with her, there is a deadline of a year set for him to have intercourse with her. If he does not, they are separated.” حَدَّثَنِي […]