Maliki

The school of Malik ibn Anas of Madinah, weighted towards the practice of that city.

Also written · Malikee · Maleki · Malikiyyah · Imam Malik · Malik ibn Anas · Maliki madhhab · Maliki school · Muwatta · Malikite

The meaning

What Maliki means in Islam

Malik died in 179 AH, and his Muwatta is among the earliest surviving books of hadith and law together. The school prevails across North and West Africa and parts of the Gulf. It gives particular weight to 'amal ahl al-Madinah, the living practice of the people of Madinah, on the reasoning that a whole city's inherited habit is itself evidence, and it makes heavy use of maslahah and of blocking the means.

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Words that sit beside it

MadhhabA school of law: a settled method of deriving rulings, carried by generations of scholars.مَذْهَب
MaslahahPublic benefit, weighed as a legal consideration where no specific text settles the matter.مَصْلَحة
Sadd al-Dhara'iBlocking the means: forbidding something lawful because it reliably leads to something forbidden.سَدُّ الذَّرائِع
'UrfLocal custom, which fiqh accepts as a decider where revelation has left a matter open.عُرْف