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 31, Hadith 101

Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 101 Malik related to me that Yahya ibn Said heard Said ibn al- Musayyab say, “When you come to a land where they give full measure and full weight, stay there. When you come to a land where they shorten the measure and weight, then do not stay there very […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 102

Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 102 Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that he heard Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir say, “Allah loves his slave who is generous when he sells, and generous when he buys, generous when he repays, and generous when he is repaid.” Malik said about a man who bought camels or […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 103

Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 103 Malik related to me that he asked Ibn Shihab about a man who hired an animal, and then re-hired it out for more than what he hired it for. He said, “There is no harm in that.” وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَنَّهُ سَأَلَهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ، يَتَكَارَى الدَّابَّةَ ثُمَّ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 1

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 1 Malik related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam that his father said, “Abdullah and Ubaydullah, the sons of Umar ibn al-Khattab went out with the army to Iraq. On the way home, they passed by Abu Musa al- Ashari who was the amir of Basra. He greeted them and […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 2

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 2 Malik related to me from al-Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman from his father from his father that Uthman ibn Affan gave him some money as qirad to use provided the profit was shared between them. وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ، […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 3

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 3 Malik said, “The recognised and permitted form of qirad is that a man take capital from an associate to use. He does not guarantee it and in travelling pays out of the capital for food and clothes and what he makes good use of, according to the amount of […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 4

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 4 Malik said, “When a man owes money to another man and he asks him to let it stay with him as a quirad, that is disapproved of until the creditor receives his property. Then he can make it a qirad loan or keep it. That is because the debtor […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 5

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 5 Yahya said that Malik spoke about an investor who made a qirad loan and stipulated to the agent that only certain goods should be bought with his money or he forbade certain goods which he named to be bought. He said, “There is no harm in an investor making […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 6

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 6 Yahya said that Malik said, “The person who puts up the principal must not stipulate that he has something of the profit alone without the agent sharing in it, nor must the agent stipulate that he has something of the profit alone without the investor sharing. In qirad, there […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 7

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 7 Yahya said that Malik said, “No one should make a qirad loan except in coin, because the loan must not be in wares, since loaning wares can only be worked in one of two ways: Either the owner of the wares says to the borrower, ‘Take these wares and […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 8

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 8 Yahya said that Malik spoke about a man who made a qirad loan to a man and he bought wares with it and transported them to a commercial centre. It was not profitable to sell them and the agent feared a loss if he sold them, so he hired […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 9

Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 9 Yahya said that Malik spoke about an investor who made a qirad loan to a man, who used it and made a profit. Then the man bought with all the profit a slave-girl and he had intercourse with her and she became pregnant by him, and so the capital […]