Al-Muwatta
of Imam Malik Ibn Anas
The First Formulation of Islamic Law
Revised in whole
Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
Paperback 465 Pages
Published by Madinah Press Inverness

The first formulation of Islamic Law based on the behaviour of the people of Madinah during the time of the great Companions, Al-Muwatta is the blueprint for a just and radiant society: the earliest, clearest, cleanest record of early  Islam. It is  divided into 61 books on different subjects, each book containing many ahadith. The numbering system used by Malik is consecutive per book

Malik's Muwatta ("the well-trodden path") is a collection of two items:

1. 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.
2. the legal opinions and decisions of the Prophet's Companions, their successors, and some later authorities.

Imam 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.

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The Translator:
Aisha Abdurrahman at Tarjumana Bewley is one today’s most prolific translators of classical Arabic work into English. Aisha Bewley not only understands Arabic but she is also aware of the basic meanings and nature of teachings and history of Islam. Her knowledge is born of experience and direct transmission, not merely academic theory and learning by rote. For more than twenty-five years she has been concerned with making the contents of many classical works in Arabic more Accessible to English-speaking readers for the first time, including Ash-Shifa of Qadi “Iyad. 

She is co-translator The Noble Qur'an A New Rendering of its Meaning in English. Other works include -Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik , Glossary of Islamic Terms,  Islam: The Empowering of Women, Muslim Women A Biographical Dictionary,  <Click to See a list of Books translated or authored by A Bewley>

• Al-Muwatta Imam Malik Chapter 54 - 60// 54 General -  55 The Oath of Allegiance .......61 The Names of the Prophet

Muwatta  Imam Malik Arabic- English
Narrated by: Yahya b Yahya b Kathir Al-Laith Al-Andalusi
2 Volumes , Published by Darul Isha'at Pakistan, HardBack 
Rendered to English by F. Amira Zrien Matraji 

"Malek's great Work <Al- Muwatta'> which  is the earliest surviving Muslim Law-Book. Its object is to give a survey of law and justice, ritual and Practice of religion, according to the tradition applied in Madina, and to create a theoretical standard for matters which were not settled from the point of view of the tradition. 
In a period of of recognition and appreciation of the cannon law under the earlier Abbasids, there was a practical interest in pointing out a smooth path (this is practically what al-Muwatta means) through the for reaching difference of opinion even on the the most elementary questions. However Al-Muwatta thus represents the transition from the doctrinal writing of the earliest period to the pure science of hadith of  the later period" ( taken  from the Preface of this book.)

The first formulation of Islamic Law based on  the people of Madinah during the time of the great Companions.

The Quality of the Print & Translation   is not as high as the Bewley version, however it is Hardback and includes the Arabic

The MUWATTA of IMAM MUHAMMAD
Translated by Mohammed Abdurahman, Abdassamad Clark and Dr Asadullah Yate 
(The science of (Jarah) Invalidation and Authentication (Tadil).
Editors Mufti Zubair Ismail Bayat, Uthman Ibrahim Morrisson and Sister Safira Batha.
Hardback 624 Pages
Published by Turath Publishing UK  H1425/2004

MUWATTA' OF IMAM MALIK Trans by  M Rahimuddin (English Only)

MUWATTA' OF IMAM MALIK Translated by Professor  Muhammed Rahimuddin
Published by Kitab Bhavan, India
Hardback, 450 Pages 
English Only 

The Quality of the Print & Translation   is not as high as the Bewley version, 

DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK :
Complied during the reign of Mansur, the second. Abbasid Caliph, Muwatta' of Imam Malik is regarded as the most authentic book on Hadith. Imam Malik passed his entire life in Medina and, threfore, had direct access to the most reliable authorities on Hadith because most of the leading companions and their successors live and died there and narrated traditions. The Muwatta' is based on the traditions narrated by them and juristic verdicts given by them, and thus it deals only with such ahadith as have a bearing on juristic verdicts.

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Hadith 9.41 91 - 96 From  Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Ibn Anas The First Formulation of Islamic Law Revised in whole
Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley Published by Madinah Press 

91 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Sa'id that 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said to a certain man, "You are in a time when men of understanding (fuqaha') are many and Qur'an reciters are few, when the hudud defined in the Qur'an are guarded and its letters are neglected, when few people ask and many give, when they make the prayer long and the khutba short, and put their actions before their desires.  A time will come upon people when their fuqaha' are few but their Qur'an reciters are many, when the letters of the Qur'an are guarded carefully but its hudud are neglected, when many ask but few give, when they make the khutba long but the prayer short, and put their desires before their actions.'
From  9.41.91 Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Ibn Anas  Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley 

92 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Sa'id said, "I have heard that the first of the actions of a slave to be considered on the day of rising is the prayer. If it is accepted from him the rest of his actions will be considered, and if it is not accepted from him none of his actions will be considered."

[In Abu Dawud, at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah]

93 Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn 'Urwa from his father that 'A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The actions which the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, loved most were those which were done most constantly."

94 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard from 'Amir ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas that his father said, "There were two brothers, one of whom died forty nights before the other. The merit of the first was being mentioned in the presence of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said, 'Was the other one not a Muslim?' They said, 'Of course, Messenger of Allah, and there was no harm in him.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'What will make you realise what his prayer has brought him? The prayer is like a deep river of sweet water running by your door into which you plunge five times a day. How much of your dirtiness do you think that will leave? You do not realise what his prayer has brought him.'"

[cf Bukhari 505]

95 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that if anyone passed by 'Ata' ibn Yasar in the mosque with something to trade, he would call him and ask, "What is the matter with you? What do you want?" If the man said that he wished to trade with him, he would say, "You need the market of this world. This is the market of the next world."

96 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab set aside an area near the mosque called al-Butayha and said, "Whoever wishes to talk nonsense or recite poetry or raise his voice should go to this area

From  Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Ibn Anas The First Formulation of Islamic Law Revised in whole
Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley Published by Madinah Press Inverness

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