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مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَس
Imam Malik
The imam of Madinah, who taught in the Prophet's mosque and wrote the Muwatta.
Also written · Malik ibn Anas · Imam Malik ibn Anas · Malik bin Anas · Imam Maalik · Malik · Imam-i Malik · Malik ibn Anas al-Asbahi · Imam Malik Madinah · Malik ibn Anas ra
The meaning
What Imam Malik means in Islam
He died in 179 and spent almost his whole life in the city, on the reasoning that its inherited practice was itself a form of evidence. The Muwatta is among the earliest surviving books to put hadith and legal rulings side by side. He was flogged for a ruling that displeased the authorities and did not retract it. When a caliph proposed making his book the single law of the empire he refused, saying the Companions had scattered and people had learned different things.
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Words that sit beside it
- MalikiThe school of Malik ibn Anas of Madinah, weighted towards the practice of that city.المَذْهَبُ المالِكِيّ
- MuwattaMalik ibn Anas's early collection, mixing hadith with Companion practice and the settled custom of Madinah.المُوَطَّأ
- Amal Ahl al-MadinahThe living practice of Madinah, treated by Malik as evidence that can outweigh a single chain report.عَمَلُ أَهْلِ المَدِينَة
- Imam ash-Shafi'iThe imam who wrote the first book on how law is derived, bridging Madinah and Iraq.مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الشَّافِعِيّ
- MadinahThe oasis city that took the Prophet in, where he governed, died and is buried.المَدِينَة
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