Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 5 Yahya said that he heard Malik say, “The best of what I have heard about the testament of a pregnant woman and about what settlements she is permitted in her property is that the pregnant woman is like the sick person. When the illness is light, and one does […]
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 37, Hadith 6 Yahya said that he heard Malik say, “This ayat is abrogated. It is the word of Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted, ‘If he leaves goods, the testament is for parents and kinsmen.’ What came down about the division of the fixed shares of inheritance in the Book of Allah, […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 7 Malik said from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that an effeminate man was with Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. He said to Abdullah ibn Abi Umayya while the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 8 Malik related to me that Yahya ibn Said said that he heard al- Qasim ibn Muhammad say, “A woman of the Ansar was married to Umar ibn al-Khattab. She bore Asim ibn Umar to him, and then he separated from her. Umar came to Quba and found his son […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 9 Yahya said that he heard Malik speak about a man who bought goods – animals or clothes or wares, and the sale was found not to be permitted so it was revoked and the one who had taken the goods was ordered to return the owner his goods. Malik […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 10 Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that Abu’d-Darda wrote to Salman al-Farsi, “Come immediately to the holy land.” Salman wrote back to him, “Land does not make anyone holy. Man’s deeds make him holy. I have heard that you were put up as a doctor to treat […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 11 Malik related to me from Umar ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Dalaf al- Muzani from his father that a man from the Juhayna tribe used to buy camels before people set out for hajj and sell them at a higher price. Then he travelled quickly and used to arrive in […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 12 Yahya said that he heard Malik say, “The sunna with us about the crime of slaves is that the hand is not cut off for any harm that a slave causes a man, or something he pilfers, or something guarded which he steals, or hanging dates he cuts down […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 37, Hadith 13 Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Uthman ibn Affan said, “If someone gives something to his small child who is not old enough to look after it himself, and in order that his gift might be permitted he makes the gift public and […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 38, Hadith 1 Malik related to me from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,said, “If a man frees his share of a slave and has enough money to cover the full price of the slave justly evaluated for him, he […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 38, Hadith 2 Malik said, “The generally agreed-on way of doing things among us in the case of slave whose master makes a bequest to free part of him – a third, a fourth, a half, or any share after his death, is that only the portion of him is freed that […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 38, Hadith 3 Malik said, “A master who frees a slave of his and settles his emancipation so that his testimony is permitted, his inviolability complete, and his right to inherit confirmed, cannot impose stipulations on him like what he imposes on a slave about property or service, nor get him to […]