Translators: `A'isha `Abdarahman at-Tarjumana and Ya`qub Johnson
Malik's Muwatta ("the well-trodden path") is a collection of two items:
- the sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (also known as the sunnah). The reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith.
- the legal opinions and decisions of the Prophet's Companions, their successors, and some later authorities.
Malik (full name Malik bin Anas bin Malik bin Abu Amir Al-Asbahi) was born in 93 A.H. and died in 179 A.H. He lived most of his life in Madinah, the city in which the Prophet (pbuh) settled in. He was a preeminent scholar of Islam, and is the originator of the Maliki judicial school of thought. He is reputed to have had over one thousand students. During Malik's lifetime, he steadily revised his Muwatta, so it reflects over forty years of his learning and knowledge. It contains a few thousand hadith.
It is important to realize, however, that Malik's collection is not complete: there are other scholars who worked as Malik did and collected other reports.
- Book 1: The Times of Prayer
- Book 2: Purity
- Book 3: Prayer
- Book 4: Forgetfulness in Prayer
- Book 5: Jumu'a
- Book 6: Prayer in Ramadan
- Book 7: Tahajjud
- Book 8: Prayer in Congregationv
- Book 9: Shortening the Prayer
- Book 10: The Two 'Ids
- Book 11: The Fear Prayer
- Book 12: The Eclipse Prayer
- Book 13: Asking for Rain
- Book 14: The Qibla
- Book 15: The Qur'an
- Book 16: Burials
- Book 17: Zakat
- Book 18: Fasting
- Book 19: I'tikaf in Ramadan
- Book 20: Hajj
- Book 21: Jihad
- Book 22: Vows and Oaths
- Book 23: Sacrificial Animals
- Book 24: Slaughtering Animals
- Book 25: Game
- Book 26: The 'Aqiqa
- Book 27: Fara'id
- Book 28: Marriage
- Book 29: Divorce
- Book 30: Suckling
- Book 31: Business Transactions
- Book 32: Qirad
- Book 33: Sharecropping
- Book 34: Renting Land
- Book 35: Pre-emption in Property
- Book 36: Judgements
- Book 37: Wills and Testaments
- Book 38: Setting Free and Wala'
- Book 39: The Mukatab
- Book 40: Hudud
- Book 41: The Mudabbar
- Book 42: Drinks
- Book 43: Blood-Money
- Book 44: The Oath of Qasama
- Book 45: Madina
- Book 46: The Decree
- Book 47: Good Character
- Book 48: Dress
- Book 49: The Description of the Prophet, may Allah...
- Book 50: The Evil Eye
- Book 51: Hair
- Book 52: Visions
- Book 53: Greetings
- Book 54: General Subjects
- Book 55: The Oath of Allegiance
- Book 56: Speech
- Book 57: Jahannam
- Book 58: Sadaqa
- Book 59: Knowledge
- Book 60: The Supplication of the Unjustly Wronged
- Book 61:The Names of the Prophet, may Allah Bless ...