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Malik ibn Anas

Imam of Medina and author of the Muwatta; born in Medina, he studied with its scholars and taught there until his death in 179 AH. The Maliki school of law bears his name. The Encyclopaedia of Islam says the date of his birth is not known, the proposed dates ranging between 90 and 97 AH, and that he died in Medina in 179 AH and was buried in al-Baqi. It describes the Muwatta as the earliest surviving Muslim law book after the legal corpus of Zayd ibn Ali, and says the few certain facts of his life are buried under legends.

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