Imaam-ul-Madina,
Imaam Malik Bin Anas RA
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Malik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn `Amr, al-Imam, Abu `Abd Allah
al-Humyari al-Asbahi al-Madani (93-179). The second of the
four major mujtahid imams, whose school filled North Africa,
al-Andalus, much of Egypt, and some of al-Sham, Yemen, Sudan,
Iraq, and Khurasan. He is the author of al-Muwatta’ ("The
Approved"), formed of the sound narrations of the Prophet
from the people of the Hijaz together with the sayings of
the Companions, the Followers, and those after them. It was
hailed by al-Shafi`i as the soundest book on earth after the
Qur’an, nearest book on earth to the Qur’an, most correct
book on earth after the Qur’an, and most beneficial book on
earth after the Qur’an according to four separate narrations.
Malik said: "I showed my book to seventy jurists of Madina,
and every single one of them approved me for it (kulluhum
wâta’ani `alayh), so I named it ‘The Approved’." Imam
al-Bukhari said that the soundest of all chains of transmission
was "Malik, from Nafi`, from Ibn `Umar." The scholars
of hadith call it the Golden Chain, and there are eighty narrations
with this chain in the Muwatta’.
Among
those Malik narrated from in the Muwatta’: Ayyub al-Sakhtyani,
Ja`far ibn Muhammad (al-Sadiq), Zayd ibn Aslam, `Ata’ al-Khurasani,
al-Zuhri, Ibn al-Munkadir, `Alqama, Nafi` the freedman of
Ibn `Umar, and others. Among those who narrated from Malik:
al-Zuhri, Ibn Jurayj, Abu Hanifa, al-Awza`i, Sufyan al-Thawri,
Shu`ba, Ibn al-Mubarak, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, `Abd al-Rahman
ibn Mahdi, Waki`, Yahya al-Qattan, al-Shafi`i, Ibn Wahb, Abu
Dawud al-Tayalisi, `Abd al-Razzaq, and many others.
The
Prophet said: "Very soon will people beat the flanks
of camels in search of knowledge, and they shall find no-one
more knowledgeable than the knowledgeable scholar of Madina."
Al-Tirmidhi, al-Qadi `Iyad, Dhahabi and others relate from
Sufyan ibn `Uyayna, `Abd al-Razzaq, Ibn Mahdi, Ibn Ma`in,
Dhu’ayb ibn `Imama, Ibn al-Madini, and others that they considered
that scholar to be Malik ibn Anas. It is also related from
Ibn `Uyayna that he later considered it to be `Abd Allah ibn
`Abd al-`Aziz al-`Umari. Al-Dhahabi said of the latter: "He
possessed knowledge and good fiqh, spoke the truth fearlessly,
ordered good, and remained aloof from society. read
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THE
QADA or MISSED FASTS
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1. The fasts that have been missed for some reason or the
other have to be kept after Ramadaan as soon as possible.
One should not delay in keeping these missed fasts. It is
a sin to delay in keeping these missed fasts without any reason.
2. When keeping the Qada fasts, it is not necessary to specify
the date by saying: "I am keeping a qada fast for so-and-so
day". Instead, one should merely keep the fasts that
have been missed. However, if one has missed a few fasts of
two Ramadaans and has to keep the qada for both the years,
it will be necessary to specify the year for which he is keeping
the qada. That is, he should make the intention in the following
way: "I am keeping this qada fast for so-and-so year".
3. When keeping a Qada fast, it is necessary to make the intention
at night (i.e. before Subah Saadiq). If the intention is made
in the morning (i.e. after Subah Saadiq), the Qada fast will
not be valid and it will be regarded as a Nafl fast. The person
will have to keep the Qada fast again.
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