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Introduction to Translation of – Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik – The Approved

Translators: ‘A’isha ‘Abdarahman at-Tarjumana and Ya’ qub Johnson 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.

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.

It is important to realize, however, that Malik’s collection is not complete: there are other scholars who worked as Malik did and collected other reports.

Book 1: The Times of Prayer

The Times of Prayer – Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik – The Approved

He said, “Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi related to me from Malik ibn Anas from Ibn Shihab that one day Umar ibn Abdal-Aziz delayed the prayer. Urwa ibn az-Zubayr came and told him that al-Mughira ibn Shuba had delayed the prayer one day while he was in Kufa and Abu Masud al-Ansari had come to him and said, ‘What’s this, Mughira? Don’t you know that the angel Jibril came down and prayed and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, prayed.’

 Then he prayed again, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, prayed. Then he prayed again, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, prayed. Then he prayed again, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, prayed. Then he prayed again, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, prayed. Then Jibril said, ‘This is what you have been ordered to do.’ Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz said, ‘Be sure of what you relate, Urwa. Was it definitely Jibril who established the time of the prayer for the Messenger of Allah?’ ” Urwa said, “That’s how it was related to Bashir ibn Abi Masud al-Ansari by his father.”

Book 1, Number 1.1.2:

Urwa said that A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace used to pray asr while the sunlight was pouring into her room, before the sun itself had become visible (i.e. because it was still high in the sky).

Book 1, Number 1.1.3:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that Ata ibn Yasar said, “A man came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and asked him about the time of the subh prayer. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, did not answer him, but in the morning he prayed subh at first light. The following morning he prayed subh when it was much lighter, and then said, ‘Where is the man who was asking about the time of the prayer?’ The man replied, ‘Here I am, Messenger of Allah.’ He said, ‘The time is beltween these two.’ “

Book 1, Number 1.1.4: – Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik – The Approved

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Amra hint Abd ar-Rahman that A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to pray subh and the women would leave wrapped in their garments and they could not yet be recognized in the darkness.”

Book 1, Number 1.1.5:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn Yasar and from Busr ibn Said and from al-Araj-all of whom related it from Abu Hurayra – that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Whoever manages to do a raka of subh before the sun has risen has done subh in time, and whoever manages to do a raka of asr before the sun has set has done asr in time.”

Book 1, Number 1.1.6:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from the mawla of Abdullah ibn Umar that Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to his governors,. saying, “The most important of your affairs in my view is the prayer. Whoever protects it and observes it carefully is protecting his deen, while whoever is negligent about it will be even more negligent about other things.”

Then he added, “Pray zhuhr any time from when the afternoon shade is the length of your forearm until the length of your shadow matches your height. Pray asr when the sun is still pure white, so that a rider can travel two or three farsakhs before the sun sets. Pray maghrib when the sun has set.

Pray isha any time from when the redness in the western sky has disappeared until a third of the night has passed – and a person who sleeps, may he have no rest, a person who sleeps, may he have no rest. And pray subh when all the stars are visible and like a haze in the sky.”

Book 1, Number 1.1.7: – Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik – The Approved

Yahya related to me from Malik, from his uncle Abu Suhayl from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to Abu Musa saying that he should pray zhuhr when the sun had started to decline, asr when the sun was still pure white before any yellowness had entered it maghrib when the sun had set, and to delay isha as long as he did not sleep, and to pray subh when the stars were all visible and like a haze in the sky and to read in it two long suras from the mufassal.

Book 1, Number 1.1.8:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that Umar ibn al­Khattab wrote to Abu Musa al-Ashari that h1;! should pray asr when the sun was still pure white so that a man could ride three farsakhs (before maghrib) and that he should pray isha during the first third of the night, or, if he delayed it, then up until the middle of the night, and he warned him not to be forgetful.

Book 1, Number 1.1.9:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yazid ibn Ziyad that Abdullah ibn Rafi, the mawla ofUmm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked Abu Hurayra about the time of the prayer. Abu Hurayra said, “Let me tell you. Pray zhuhr when the length of your shadow matches your height, asr when your shadow is twice your height, maghrib when the sun has set, isha in the first third of the night, and subh in the very first light of dawn,” i.e. when the dawn has definitely come.

Book 1, Number 1.1.10:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Talha that Anas ibn Malik said, “We would pray asr and anyone who then went to the Bani Amr ibn Awf would find them praying asr.”

Book 1, Number 1.1.11:

Y ahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Anas ibn Malik said, “We would pray asr and anyone who then went to Quba would arrive there while the sun was still high.”

Book 1, Number 1.1.12:

Yahya related to me from Malik from Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman that al Qasim ibn Muhammad said, “None of the companions that I met prayed zhuhr until well after noon,”(i.e. until when the sun had lost its fierceness).

The Time of the Jumua Prayer – Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik – The Approved

Book 1, Number 1.2.13:

Yahya related to me from Malik from his uncle Abu Suhayl ibn Malik that his father said, “I used to see a carpet belonging to Aqil ibn Abi Talib spread out on the day of jumua up to the west wall of the mosque. When the shadow of the wall covered the whole carpet, Umar ibn al-Khattab would come out and pray the jumua prayer.”  Malik, Abu Suhayl’s father, added, “We would then return after the jumua prayer and take our midday sleep.”

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