The Muwatta of Imam Muhammad alShaybani
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Mohammed AbdurrahmanAbdassamad Clarke
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About The Book
This text on the Muwatta includes chapters on the prayer, funerals, fasting, marriage, divorce, sacrifices, compensation for killing and injury, lost property and more.
Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani -- He is Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Farqad al-Shaybani. Muhammad was born in Wasit in 132 AH, and grew up in Kufa. He was a pupil of Abu Hanifah. Imam Shafi’i said, "I have not seen anyone more eloquent than him. I used to think when I saw him reciting the Qur’an that it was as if the Qur’an had been revealed in his language."
He also said, "I have not seen anyone more intelligent than Muhammad ibn al-Hasan." Dhahabi said, "He narrated from Malik ibn Anas and others, and he was one of the great oceans of knowledge and fiqh, and he was strong [when he narrated] from Malik." Muhammad said, "I stood at Malik’s door for three years and I heard [the Muwatta’] from him [with] more than seven hundred hadith." He died in Rayy in 189 AH.
Book Description Translated by Mohammed Abdurrahman & Abdus Samad Clarke
This quote from one of the greatest authorities on hadith of all time is sufficient recommendation. The version of the Muwatta narrated by Imam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, one of the two leading pupils of Imam Abu Hanifah, directly from his three years of study with Imam Malik will be of particular interest not only to students of Hanafi fiqh, but also to students of hadith in general.
Imam Malik composed the Muwatta’ over a period of forty years to represent the "well-trodden path" of the people of Madina. Its name also means that it is the book that is "many times agreed upon"— about whose contents the people of Madina were unanimously agreed—and that is "made easy and facilitated".
Its high standing is such that people of every school of fiqh and all of the imams of hadith scholarship agree upon its authenticity. Imam Shafi’i said, "There is not on the face of the earth—after the Book of Allah—a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik." Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi (1114-1176 AH) said, "My breast expanded and I became certain that the Muwatta’ is the most sahih book to be found on the earth after the Book of Allah."
Imam Malik -- Imam Malik is the imam of the imams, the leader of the people of knowledge of Madinah, Malik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn Abi ‘Amir al-Asbahi al-Madani, born in 94 AH, 95 AH or even 99 AH. He was called the Man of Knowledge of Madina. People of knowledge understood that it was him the Prophet saw indicated in the hadith from Abu Hurayra,
"People will soon beat the livers of their camels [in traveling in search of knowledge] but they will not find a man of knowledge more knowledgeable than the man of knowledge of Madina." Among his pupils were the Imams Sufyan ath-Thawri, Sa’id ibn Mansur, ‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, ‘Abd ar-Rahman al-Awza’I who was older than him, Layth ibn Sa’d who was one of his peers, Imam al-Shafi’i, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, the Malikis ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim, Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi, Ibn Wahb, and Dhu’n-Nun al-Misri. He died in 179 AH on the morning of the 14th of Rabi’ al-Awwal.
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About the author
Muhammad al-Shaybani: Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani rahimahullah (132-189 AH / 749-805 CE) was a towering figure of early Islamic jurisprudence and one of the principal transmitters of the Hanafi school. Born in Wasit and raised in Kufa, he studied directly under Imam Abu Hanifah and, following Abu Hanifah's death, under Imam Abu Yusuf. He also traveled to Madina to study under Imam Malik ibn Anas, from whom he transmitted the Muwatta - the very transmission published as 'The Muwatta of Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani.' His six foundational works, collectively known as the Zahir al-Riwaya, preserve the legal rulings of Abu Hanifah and his school and form the bedrock of Hanafi fiqh. Al-Shaybani served as a judge (qadi) under the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid and also taught Imam al-Shafi'i, who credited him as one of his most important teachers. He died in Rayy.
About the translator
Abdassamad Clarke: Abdassamad Clarke is a scholar, translator and author from Carrickfergus in Ulster. He was formally educated in Mathematics and Physics at Edinburgh University and subsequently studied Arabic, tajwid and Islamic sciences in Cairo. He accepted Islam in 1973 at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi. In the 1980s he served as secretary to the Imam of the Dublin Mosque, Shaykh Yahya Muhammad al-Hussein, and in the early 1990s served as imam khatib of the Norwich Mosque, where he later served again as imam and teacher. During his time in Dublin he wrote as a freelance journalist for the Irish Times, Irish Press, Sunday Press, The Phoenix, Common Ground and The Aisling, contributing articles on Islam, banking, usury, and alternative currencies. He has translated a number of classical Arabic works, including chapters on the Khulafa ar-Rashidun from as-Suyuti's Tarikh al-Khulafa', al-Nawawi's The Complete Forty Hadith, and The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom. He co-authored with the late Abdarrahman I. Doi the second edition of Shariah - Islamic Law. He has served as Dean and Rector of the Muslim Faculty of Advanced Studies in Norwich.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9780954738006
Publisher
Turath Publishing
Author
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Pages
624
Translator
Mohammed Abdurrahman and Abdassamad Clarke
Size
W-6.7 in | H-9.5 in | D-1.9 in
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