AlMuwatta Of Imam Malik

Ash-Shfi Said, After The Book Of Allah, There Is No Book On The Face Of The Earth Sounder Than The Book Of Mlik. Al Ad-Dn Maghlay Al-anaf Said, The First Person To Compile The a Was Mlik. Ibn ajar Said, The Book Of Mlik Is Sound By All The Criteria That Are Demanded As Proofs In The Mursal, Munqai And Other Types Of Transmission. As-Suy Followed Ibn ajarS Judgement And Said, It Is Absolutely Correct To Say That The Muwaa Is Sound (a) Without Exception. Al-Bukhr And Muslim Transmitted Most Of Its adths And Included Them In Their a Collections. The Authors Of The Rest Of The Six Books, The Imm Of The adth Scholars, Amad Ibn anbal, And Others Did The Same. But, In Addition, The Muwaa Contains A Record Of The Practice Of The People Of Madnah Of The First Generations, A Transmission Of The Ethos That Permeated The City And Imm MlikS Painstaking Clarification Of The Sunna, The adths, The Practice And Legal Judgements. Imam MlikS Full Name Is Mlik Ibn Anas Ibn Mlik Ibn Ab mir Al-Aba And He Was Related To Dh Aba, A Sub-Tribe Of imyar. He Was Instructed In The Learning And Recitation Of The Noble Qurn By Imm Nfi Ibn Abd Ar-Ramn Ibn Ab NuAym, The Imm Of The Reciters Of Madna And One Of The Seven Reciters. Among The Huge Number Of His Teachers In adth And Fiqh Were Nfi, The Mawl Of Abdullh Ibn Umar And Ibn Shihb Az-Zuhr. He Sat To Give Fatw When He Was Seventeen Years Old After Seventy Imms Had Testified That He Was Worthy To Give Fatw And Teach. His Own Students Included Imm Ash-Shfi And Imm Muhammad Ibn Al-asan Ash-Shaybn The anaf Mujtahid, As Well As A Great Number Of Imms Of adth And Fiqh And Thus He Is Known As Imm Al-AImmah The Imm Of The Imms.