Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik - Arabic-English

Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik - Arabic-English by Anas, Malik Ibn. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781908892423.

It contains a record of the exemplification by the last Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, of the message of the Quran, the practice (amal) of the people of Madinah of the first generations, a transmission of the ethos that permeated the city, and Imam Maliks painstaking clarification of the Sunna, the hadiths, the practice and legal judgements. Ash-Shafii said, "After the Book of Allah, there is no book on the face of the earth sounder than the book of Malik." Ala ad-Daan Maghlatay al-Hanafi said, "The first person to compile the sahih was Malik." Ibn Hajar said, "The book of Malik is sound by all the criteria that are demanded as proofs in the mursal, munqati and other types of transmission." As-Suyuti followed Ibn Hajars judgement and said, "It is absolutely correct to say that the Muwatta is sound (sahih) without exception." Al-Bukhari and Muslim transmitted most of its hadiths and included them in their sahih collections. The authors of the rest of the six books, the Imam of the hadith scholars, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and others did the same.