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 43, Hadith 4

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 4 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Marwan ibn al-Hakam wrote to Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan that a madman was brought to him who had killed a man. Muawiya wrote to him, “Tie him up and do not inflict any retaliation on him. There is […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 5

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 5 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Irak ibn Malik and Sulayman ibn Yasar that a man of the Banu Sad ibn Layth was running a horse and it trod on the finger of a man from the Juhayna tribe. It bled profusely, and he died. […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 6

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 6 Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab, Sulayman ibn Yasar, and Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman said, “The blood-money of manslaughter is twenty yearlings, twenty two-year-olds, twenty male two-year-olds, twenty four-year-olds, and twenty five-year-olds.” Malik said, “The generally agreed on way with us is that there is […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 7

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 7 Malik related to me that the generally agreed on way of doing things amongst the community about an accident is that there is no blood-money until the victim is better. If a man’s bone, either a hand, or a foot, or another part of his body, is broken accidentally […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 8

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 8 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn al-Musayyab said, “The blood-money for a woman is the same as for a man up to one third of the blood-money. Her finger is like his finger, her tooth is like his tooth, her injury which […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 9

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 9 Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab and also Urwa ibn az-Zubayr said the same as Said ibn al-Musayyab said about a woman. Her blood-money from a man is the same up to a third of the blood-money of a man. If what she is owed exceeds […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 10

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 10 Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Ibn Shihab say, “The precedent of the sunna when a man injures a woman is that he must pay the blood- money for that injury and there is no retaliation against him.” Malik said, “That is an accidental injury, when […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 11

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 11 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf from Abu Hurayra that a woman from the Hudhayl tribe threw a stone at a woman from the same tribe, and she had a miscarriage. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 12

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 12 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave a judgement that the compensation for a foetus killed in its mother’s womb was a slave or slave-girl of fair complexion […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 13

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 13 Yahya related to me from Malik that Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman said, “The slave of fair complexion and excellence is estimated at fifty dinars or six hundred dirhams. The blood-money of a free muslim woman is five hundred dinars or six thousand dirhams.” Malik said, “The blood-money of […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 14

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 14 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Said ibn al- Musayyab used to say, “The full blood-money is payable for cutting off both lips, but when the lower one only is cut off, two-thirds of the blood-money is due for it.” حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 15

Muwatta Malik: Book 43, Hadith 15 Yahya related to me from Malik that he asked Ibn Shihab about the one-eyed man who gouged out the eye of a healthy person. Ibn Shihab said, “If the healthy person wants to take retaliation from him, he can have his retaliation. If he prefers, he has blood-money of […]