Books Details
Author : Malik Ibn Anas Pages : 1164 pages Publisher : Diwan Press Language :
ISBN-10 : 1908892439 ISBN-13 : 9781908892430
Books Descriptions
The Muwa a' contains a record of the exemplification by the last Messenger of
Allah, peace be upon him, of the message of the Qur' n, the practice ('amal) of
the people of Mad nah of the first generations, a transmission of the ethos that
permeated the city, and Im m M lik's painstaking clarification of the Sunna, the
ad ths, the practice and legal judgements. Ash-Sh fi' said, "After the Book of
Allah, there is no book on the face of the earth sounder than the book of M lik."
'Al ' ad-D n Maghla y al- anaf said, "The first person to compile the a was M lik."
Ibn ajar said, "The book of M lik is sound by all the criteria that are demanded
as proofs in the mursal, munqa i' and other types of transmission." As-Suy
followed Ibn ajar's judgement and said, "It is absolutely correct to say that the
Muwa a' is sound ( a ) without exception." Al-Bukh r and Muslim transmitted
most of its ad ths and included them in their a collections. The authors of the
rest of the six books, the Im m of the
