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| Author | Imam Malik ibn Anas |
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| Original title | موطأ الإمام مالك |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Hadith collection |
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The Muwaṭṭaʾ (Arabic: الموطأ, "well-trodden path") or Muwatta Imam Malik (Arabic: موطأ الإمام مالك) of Imam Malik (711–795) written in the 8th-century, is one of the earliest collections of hadith texts comprising the subjects of Islamic law, compiled by the Imam, Malik ibn Anas.[1] It is also the earliest extant example of a musannaf, referring to a genre of hadith compilation which arranges hadith topically.
Malik's best-known work, Al-Muwatta was the first legal work to incorporate and combine hadith and fiqh.[2]
- ^ al-Kattani, Muhammad ibn Ja`far (2007). Muhammad al-Muntasir al-Kattani (ed.). al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah (in Arabic) (seventh ed.). Beirut: Dar al-Bashair al-Islamiyyah. pp. 9, 41.
- ^ Swartz, Merlin (1991). "Review of Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik translated by Aisha Bewley". Review of Middle East Studies. 25: 102–103. doi:10.1017/S0026318400024056. ISSN 0026-3184. S2CID 164621961.