Al-Mouwatta "Malik ibn Anas"

First book that was written to collect hadith classified by chapters

Al-Muwatta Book

This is the first book that was written to collect hadith classified by chapters. The significance of Al-Muwatta is "that which is made easy." This book of Imam Malik named Al-Muwatta was also the first book written in the hadith and jurisprudence at the same time. That is to say that there were in the same book the hadith of the Prophet (sallallaahu the Lahou 'alayhi wa sallam) and case law. It remained to call for forty years. It has many chains of transmission that the hadith specialists, muhaddith were judged to be the most authentic hadith.

Ash-Shafi'i said about the book Al-Muwatta "He did not appear on Earth a book after the book of Allah -the Qour-an- that is more authentic than the book of Malik."

In his time, he was told: "Do people emit jurisprudence notice when there Malik in Medina! "

His birth and his biography

He is nicknamed Abu 'l-Lah Abdi's father Abdou l-Lah. His name is Malik son of Anas son of Abu 'Amir Anas son of Al-Harith son of Ghayman Al-Madani Al-Asbahi.

His ancestry goes back to Ya'rab son of son of Yachjab Qahtan. His ancestor called Malik son Anas. It is part of the great companions and successors of those who carried the body of Uthman Ibn 'Affan Allah be pleased with him, night to his grave as mentioned by Al-Qushayri.

The father of her grandfather is the companion Abu Malik was to the side of the Prophet (sallallaahu the Lahou 'alayhi wa sallam) in the various battles except that of Badr.

When the mother of Imam Malik, it is called Al-'Aliyah daughter Charik son of 'Abdu r-Rahman Al-Asdiyah.

The son of Imam Malik are Yahya and Muhammad Hammad.

Imam Malik is the founder of one of the four schools of jurisprudence that has been preserved, known and disseminated in the countries of the Muslims.

Imam Malik was born in Medina the Illuminated in the year 95 AH. He grew up with a lot of application for learning science and the fact of reporting the hadith. He took science and brought it to a large number of successors companions and successors of the successors of the companions that are counted by the hundreds among which mention Nafi 'the freed slave of the son of' Umar. There are also Ibn Shihab Az-Zuhri. There Aba z-Zinaad and there are A-ichah the daughter of Sa'd Ibn Abi Waqas, or Yahya Ibn Sa'eed Al-Ansari.

He was, as Allah have mercy on him, Imam of Medina. His knowledge has spread in the different countries. He was known in several countries and was making trips to come to him from different regions.

He taught that it was seventeen years old. He stayed to give jurisprudence of view, to teach people, as many of his Shaykh reported him-that is to say they gave him knowledge and he had learned of in others and he had sent them to their turning.

As Muhammad Ibn Shihab Az-Zuhri, like Rabiah Ibn Abi 'Abdi-Rahman r the jurisprudence specialist of the people of Medina, as Yahya Ibn Sa'id al-Ansari, as Musa Ibn' Ouqbah and many others have reported of him as the Qadi 'Iyad wrote a book in which he had counted three hundred thousand names of those who have reported from Imam Malik, may Allah be pleased with him.

The best known of them were Sufyan Ath-Thawri and even the Imam Muhammad Ibn Idris Mujtahid Ash-Shafi'i and Abdou l-Lah Ibn l-Mubarak.