The word · Hadith
المُوَطَّأ
Muwatta
Malik ibn Anas's early collection, mixing hadith with Companion practice and the settled custom of Madinah.
Also written · Al-Muwatta · Muwatta Malik · Muwatta of Imam Malik · Muwattaa · Muwatta' · Muatta · Mowatta · Mouatta · Muwatta Imam Malik · Muwatta Maalik
The meaning
What Muwatta means in Islam
The name suggests something made smooth, or well trodden. It is the earliest of these books to survive in wide use, and it is a law book as much as a hadith book: Malik records a report, then how the people of Madinah actually acted. Al-Shafi'i is quoted as calling it the soundest book on earth after the Book of Allah, a judgement made before the two Sahihs were compiled.
Evidence · Editorial · Our own summary, drawn from the sources named
Read beside it
Rooms that name it
Words that sit beside it
- MusannafA collection arranged by legal topic that includes Companion and follower statements alongside hadith.المُصَنَّف
- Amal Ahl al-MadinahThe living practice of Madinah, treated by Malik as evidence that can outweigh a single chain report.عَمَلُ أَهْلِ المَدِينَة
- Kutub SittahThe six hadith collections that became the standard reference set in Sunni Islam.الكُتُبُ السِّتَّة
- AtharA report from a Companion or a follower rather than from the Prophet himself.الأَثَر
More from Hadith
- AdalahThe uprightness of a narrator: sane, adult, Muslim, not openly sinful, not known for shameful habits.العَدَالَة
- Hadith QudsiA hadith in which the Prophet reports words from Allah that are not part of the Qur'an.الحَدِيثُ القُدْسِيّ
- Jami'A hadith book that covers every subject, not only law: belief, manners, tafsir, history and more.الجَامِع
- Mawdu'A fabricated report, invented and then attached to the Prophet; not really a hadith at all.المَوْضُوع
- MusnadEither a hadith with a connected chain reaching the Prophet, or a book arranged by narrating Companion.المُسْنَد
- Sahih al-BukhariThe collection of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, held to be the soundest book after the Qur'an.صَحِيحُ البُخَارِيّ