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Roles: Scholar · Jurist · muhaddith
Counted among: Sunni
Region: Arabia
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Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Hammad ibn Zayd · Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi · Al-Awza'i, Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran · Sulayman ibn Tarkhan al-Taymi

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Authored: Muwatta of Imam Malik
Taught: Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Muwatta, Book of Funerals· Muwatta, Book of Zakat· Muwatta, Book of Fasting· Muwatta, Book of Seclusion (i'tikaf)· Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage· Muwatta, Book of Jihad· Muwatta, Book of Vows and oaths

Sources

Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)

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islam.museum contributors. “Malik ibn Anas”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/malik-ibn-anas/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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People

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Muwatta, Book of Prayer

The Book of Prayer in the Muwatta, volume 1, starting at PDF page 33 (PDF numbering, not the printed page).