Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Ibn Anas English Aisha Bewley
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About The Book
The first formulation of Islamic Law based on the of the people of Madinah during the time of the great Companions, Al-Muwatta is the blueprint for a just and radiant society: the earliest, clearest, cleanest record of early Islam. It is divided into 61 books on different subjects, each book containing many ahadith. The numbering system used by Malik is consecutive per book
Malik's Muwatta (the well-trodden path) is a collection of two items:
1 - the sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). The reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith.
2 - the legal opinions and decisions of the Prophet's Companions, their successors, and some later authorities.
About Imam Malik
Imam Malik (full name Malik bin Anas bin Malik bin Abu Amir Al-Asbahi) was born in 93 A.H. and died in 179 A.H. He lived most of his life in Madinah, the city in which the Prophet () settled in. He was a preeminent scholar of and is the originator of the Maliki judicial school of thought.
He is reputed to have had over one thousand students. During Malik's lifetime, he steadily revised his Muwatta, so it reflects over forty years of his learning and knowledge. It contains a few thousand hadith.
Author Name: Imam Malik Ibn Anas
Translator: Aisha Bewley
Binding: Paperback
Page: 464
Language: English
ISBN 13:
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
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About the author
Malik ibn Anas: Malik ibn Anas (93-179 AH / 711-795 CE) was the jurist and hadith master of Madina, honored as the Imam of the Abode of Emigration (Imam Dar al-Hijra). He passed nearly his whole life in the Prophet's city, studying under its leading scholars and in turn teaching from a celebrated circle near the Prophet's mosque, where students came from across the Muslim world. A defining feature of his thought was the weight he gave to the practice of the people of Madina (ʿamal ahl al-Madina), which he treated as a faithful transmission of the Sunna preserved generation after generation. His enduring work is al-Muwattaʾ, among the earliest surviving books of hadith and law. It gathers Prophetic reports together with the rulings of the Companions and Successors and the settled custom of Madina, arranged by chapters of jurisprudence. Several recensions were transmitted by his students; the one read most widely today is the riwaya of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi al-Andalusi. Al-Shafiʿi, who studied under him, famously praised the book. From his teaching grew the Maliki school, one of the four enduring Sunni schools of law, which spread to take deep root across North and West Africa, al-Andalus, and parts of the Arab world, where it remains the dominant madhhab to this day. He is remembered for his caution in giving fatwa, his reverence for hadith, and his lasting shaping of Sunni legal tradition.
About the translator
Aisha Bewley: Aisha Bewley (b. 1948 CE) is one of the most prolific and respected translators of classical Arabic Islamic literature into English. Born in the United States, she earned a BA in French and an MA in Near Eastern languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and undertook further study at the American University in Cairo. She embraced Islam in 1968 and has since devoted more than four decades to rendering the texts of the Islamic tradition into clear, accessible English. Her best-known work is The Noble Qur'an, a translation of the meanings of the Qur'an produced with her husband, Abdalhaqq Bewley, and first published in 1999. Among her landmark translations are the Muwatta' of Imam Malik ibn Anas (1989), a foundational early collection of hadith and Maliki fiqh, and the multi-volume Tafsir of al-Qurtubi (2003 onward). Her wider output spans creed, law, and Prophetic biography, including abridgements and renderings of works such as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's writing on the soul after death and classical descriptions of the noble character and appearance of the Prophet, peace be upon him. WorldCat records her as author or translator of dozens of works across many editions, and in 2023 she was named Muslim Woman of the Year by The Muslim 500, which recognizes the world's most influential Muslims. Her translations are valued for fidelity to the Arabic and readable English, and remain in steady use among English-speaking students of the tradition.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781908892355
Publisher
Diwan Press
Author
Malik ibn Anas
Pages
464
Translator
Aisha Bewley
Size
W-6.9 in | H-9.5 in | D-1.1 in
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