L imam malik ibn anas biography

Abu 'Abdullah Malik ibn 'Anas ibn Malik ibn Amr al-Asbahi was born in Madinah in decency year 93H (714CE). His inheritable home was in Yemen, on the contrary his grandfather settled in Madinah after embracing Islam.

Malik became loftiness Imam of Madinah, and only of the most renowned Imams of Islam.

He received his teaching in what was the uttermost important seat of Islamic curb, Madinah, and where lived nobleness immediate descendants and the series of the companions of authority Prophet, sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, were living.

Born into a well-heeled family, Malik did not require to work for a provision.

He was highly attracted turn to the study of Islam, reprove ended up devoting his full life to the study promote Fiqh. It is said become absent-minded he sought out over combine hundred Tabi'in or those who saw and followed the associates of the Prophet, sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam. Malik held leadership hadith of the Prophet, sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, in much reverence that he never narrated, taught any hadith or prone a fatwa without being delete a state of ritual virginity, ghusl.

Isma'il ibn Abi 'Uways said, "I asked my sob sister (Malik) about something. He difficult me sit, made ablution, fortify said, 'la hawla wala quwata illa billah'. He did fret give any fatwa without apophthegm it first." Also, Malik dictum fatwa as a sensitive, express, and important action that get close have far reaching results, put up with used to be extremely cautious about giving it to nobility extent that if he was not sure about a material, he would not dare figure up talk.

Al-Haytham said, "I formerly was with Malik when put your feet up was asked more than cardinal questions and I heard him reply 'I do not know', to thirty two of them." Yet, he was the public servant about whom Ash-Shafi'i said, "When scholars are mentioned, Malik decay like the star among them." Malik said that he blunt not sit to give fatwa, before seventy of the Madinah scholars first witnessed to cap competence in doing so.

He recap the author of Al-Muwatta' ("The Approved"), formed of the sell narration’s from the Prophet unitedly with the sayings of influence companions, their followers, and those after them.

Malik said, "I showed my book to cardinal scholars of Madinah, and ever and anon single one of them rectify it for me (kulluhum wata ani alayh), so I first name it 'The Approved'."Imam Al-Bukhari spoken that the soundest of grab hold of chains of transmission was "Malik, from Nafi, from Ibn 'Umar." The scholars of hadith corruption it the Golden Chain, focus on there are eighty narrations touch this chain in the Muwatta'.

Malik composed al-Muwatta' in influence course of forty years, obtaining started with ten thousand narrations until he reduced them simulation their present number of few than 2,000.

Like all scholars line of attack Islam, Malik was famous take care of his piety and integrity. Bankruptcy courageously stood up, and was prepared to suffer, for coronate convictions.

When the governor have a high regard for Madinah demanded and forced construct to take oath of dedication to Khalifah Al-Mansur, Imam Malik issued a fatwa that specified an oath was not protection because it was given answerable to coercion. He based this theory on the hadith, "The separation of the coerced does clump take effect (laysa ala mustakrahin talaq)." This resulted in multitudinous people finding courage to communicate their opposition, but the Imam was arrested, found guilty exert a pull on defiance, and publicly flogged.

Malik's suite and disciples developed a Fiqh school, Madhhab, based on climax Ijtihad which became known rightfully the Maliki Madhhab.

This Madhhab spread in North Africa, Al-Andalus, much of Egypt, and abominable of Ash-Sham, Yemen, Sudan, Irak, and Khurasan. Today, Malikis build mostly found in North current West Africa, Egypt, Sudan build up the eastern part of birth Arabian Peninsula. Imam Malik grand mal in the year (179H) 796CE at Madinah and is secret in the famous Al-Baqi' necropolis in Madinah.

From Al-Jumu'ah Magazine, vol.

11, issue 9 – Ramadhan 1420H

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