Min Hadith Malik ibn Anas li-Abi al-Hasan al-Azdi
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- 443 AH
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- Min Hadith Malik ibn Anas li-Abi al-Hasan al-Azdi
Min Hadith Malik ibn Anas li-Abi al-Hasan al-Azdi (Arabic: من حديث مالك بن أنس لأبي الحسن الأزدي, lit. 'From the Hadiths of Malik ibn Anas by Abu al-Hasan al-Azdi') is a hadith monograph (juz') compiled by the judge Ibn Sakhr (Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Azdi, d. c. 5th century AH / 11th century CE), assembling narrations and reports transmitted through chains stemming from Malik ibn Anas (d. 179 AH / 795 CE) .
Transmission and Authorship
The text consists of hadiths that Ibn Sakhr heard from his teachers across cities such as Basra, Baghdad, and Mecca, including Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Ya'qub al-Nujayrami, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Bittana, and Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Qattan .
Ibn Sakhr transmitted the work via written authorization (kitabah) from Mecca to Abu Sadiq Murshid ibn Yahya al-Madini, who taught it at his home in Egypt in Dhu al-Qi'dah 516 AH . From Abu Sadiq, it was narrated in 574 AH by Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah ibn Ali al-Busiri, and subsequently transmitted through later chains involving scholars such as Abu al-Tahir Isma'il ibn Abd al-Qawi ibn Azzun, Lami' ibn Ibrahim al-Asqalani, Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Maqdisi, and Ali ibn Mas'ud ibn Nafis .
Contents and Structure
The preserved manuscript comprises 99 numbered reports that bring together prophetic hadiths, legal traditions, and biographical anecdotes revolving around Malik ibn Anas .
The collection addresses diverse subjects, including:
- Ritual laws and devotional acts: Traditions regarding prayer timings, responding to the call to prayer, purification, fasting, zakat al-fitr, the rites of pilgrimage, and the ruling on entering the Kaaba .
- Prophetic biography and historical events: Narrations concerning the Prophet's entry into Mecca on the day of its conquest wearing a helmet and ordering the execution of Ibn Khatal .
- Creed and theological positions: Transmissions reporting Malik's theological stances, such as his condemnation of the doctrine that the Quran is created and his disapproval of intermarriage with the Qadariyyah .
- Anecdotes and scholarly maxims: Sayings by Malik concerning asceticism (zuhd), his counsel on sincere devotion and knowledge to Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i, an exchange with Caliph Harun al-Rashid regarding the status of Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattab, and reports about Malik's final hours before his death .
The text concludes with report number 99, in which Malik states that he never departed from a scholar's assembly without fully committing to memory every hadith heard therein .
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