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 20, Hadith 263

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 263 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah ibn Abbas used to say that the area between the corner of the Black Stone and the door of the Kaba was called al-Multazam. وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ، كَانَ يَقُولُ مَا […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 264

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 264 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said heard Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban mentioning that a certain man passed Abu Dharr at ar-Rabadha (which was about 30 miles from Madina) and Abu Dharr asked him, “Where are you heading to?” and he replied, “I am intending […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 265

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 265 Yahya related to me from Malik that he asked Ibn Shihab about making a condition in the hajj that one could leave ihram at any place where an obstacle befell one and he said, “Does anyone do that?’ and disapproved of it. Malik was asked whether a man could […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 266

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 266 Malik said, concerning a woman who had never been on hajj, “If she doesn’t have a mahram, or if she has, but he cannot come with her, she does not abandon Allah’s making of the hajj obligatory for her. Let her go in a group of women.” Muwatta Malik: […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 267

Muwatta Malik: Book 20, Hadith 267 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az- Zubayr that A’isha umm al-muminin used to say, “Someone performing hajj at-tamattu who does not have a sacrificial animal fasts (three days) from the time he enters ihram for the hajj till the Day of Arafa, […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 1

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 1 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud from Abdullah ibn Abbas that Sad ibn Ubada questioned the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said,”My mother died while she still had a vow which […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 2

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 2 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr that his paternal aunt related that her grandmother made a vow to walk to the Quba mosque. She died, and did not fulfill it, so Abdullah ibn Abbas asked her daughter to walk for her. Yahya said that […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 3

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 3 Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Abi Habiba said, “I said to a man, when I was young, ‘A man who only says that he must walk to the House of Allah and does not say that he has vowed to walk, does not have to […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 4

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 4 Yahya related to me from Malik that Urwa ibn Udhayna al-Laythi said, “I went out with my grandmother who had vowed to walk to the House of Allah. When we had gone part of the way, she could not go on. I sent one of her mawlas to question […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 5

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 5 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, “I vowed to walk, but I was struck by a pain in the kidney, so I rode until I came to Makka. I questioned Ata ibn Abi Rabah and others, and they said, ‘You must sacrifice an animal.’ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 6

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 6 Yahya related to me from Malik that what he preferred of what he had heard from the people of knowledge about a man or woman who vowed to walk to the House of Allah, was that they fulfilled the oath when performing umra, by walking until they had done […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 7

Muwatta Malik: Book 22, Hadith 7 Yahya related to me from Malik that Humayd ibn Qays and Thawr ibn Zayd adDili both informed him that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, (and one of them gave more detail than the other),saw a man standing in the sun. The Messenger […]