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Al-Muwatta
of Imam Malik Ibn Anas
The First Formulation of Islamic Law
Revised in whole
Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
Paperback 465 Pages
Published by
Madinah Press Inverness
The first formulation of Islamic Law based on the behaviour 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:
- the sayings and deeds of
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (also known as the sunnah).
The reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith.
- the legal opinions and
decisions of the Prophet's Companions, their successors, and some
later authorities.
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 (pbuh) settled in. He was a preeminent
scholar of Islam, 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.
Table
of Contents
The Translator:
Aisha Abdurrahman at Tarjumana Bewley is one today’s most prolific
translators of classical Arabic work into English. Aisha Bewley not only
understands Arabic but she is also aware of the basic meanings and nature of
teachings and history of Islam. Her knowledge is born of experience and direct
transmission, not merely academic theory and learning by rote. For more than
twenty-five years she has been concerned with making the contents of many
classical works in Arabic more Accessible to English-speaking readers for the
first time, including Ash-Shifa of Qadi “Iyad.
She
is co-translator The
Noble Qur'an A New Rendering of its Meaning in English. Other works
include -Al-Muwatta
of Imam Malik , Glossary
of Islamic Terms, Islam:
The Empowering of Women, Muslim
Women A Biographical Dictionary,
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