The School of Malik
MALIK B. ANAS B. MALIK B. ABU ‘AMIR Al-ASBAHI
The great grandfather: Abu ‘Amir al-Asbahi. He is said by some to have been a Companion of the Prophet, salla’llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
The grandfather: Malik. He was one of the great Tabi‘in. He died around 100 AH. He related from ‘Umar, Talha, ‘A’isha, Abu Hurayra and Hassan ibn Thabit. He buried ‘Uthman. Malik himself was born in 93 AH at Madinah. He died in 179 AH.
He had a daughter called Fatima. His sons: Yahya, Muhammad, Hammad.
THE TEACHERS OF MALIK
Malik lived in Madinah. All the knowledge of the epoch was there. Malik related from 900 or more shaykhs (he wrote 100,000 hadith with his own hand), including Tabi‘in and Tabi‘in at-Tabi‘in like his father. He learned from the whole of the city of Madinah.
Some of the Shaykhs who taught Malik also related from him:
FROM MADINAH:
Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn ‘Ubaydullah ibn Shihab az-Zuhri (T)
Abu’l-Aswad (T)
Ayyub ibn Abi Tamima as-Sakhtiyani. (T)
Rabi‘a ibn Abi ‘Abdu’r-Rahman (T)
Musa ibn ‘Uqba (T)
Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Isma‘il ad-Darrab (T)
Hisham ibn ‘Urwa (T)
Zayd ibn Aslam (T)
Yazid ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Qusayt al-Laythi (T)
‘Amr ibn al-Harith al-Misri. (TT)
Zayd ibn Abi Unaysa al-Jazari (TT)
Nafi‘ al-Qari’ ibn Abi Nu‘aym (TT)
Muhammad ibn ‘Ajlan (TT)
Ziyad ibn Sa‘id (TT)
Salim ibn Abi Umayya Abu’n-Nadr (TT)
Yazid ibn ‘Ubaydullah ibn Usama ibn al-Hadi (TT)
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdu’r-Rahman ibn Abi Dhi’b al-Qurashi (TT)
‘Abdu’l-Malik ibn Jurayh (TT)
Muhammad ibn Ishaq, the author of al-Maghazi (TT)
Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Madani (TT)
Sulayman ibn Mahran al-A‘mash (TT)
All the Shaykhs of Malik were from Madinah except six:
Abu’z-Zubayr from Makka (T)
Hamid at-Tawil from Basra (T)
Ayyub as-Sakhtiyani from Basra (T)
‘Ata’ ibn Abi Muslim from Khorasan (T)
‘Abdu’l-Karim al-Jazari from Mesopotamia (T)
Ibrahim ibn Abala from Syria (T)
THE SCHOLARS FROM MALIK
IN MADINAH
Al-Mughira ibn ‘Abdu’r-Rahman al-Makkzumi (1) He was the faqih of Madinah after Malik. Died 188.
Nafi‘ ibn Abi Nu‘aym, the qari‘ (1)
‘Abdu’l-Malik ibn ‘Abdu’l-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Salama(2)
Musa ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Mus‘ab ibn Thabit ibn ‘Abdullah (2)
IN YEMEN
Yahya ibn Thabit (1)
IN HIJAZ
Muhammad ibn Idris Ash-Shafi‘i (2)
IN IRAQ AND THE EAST
‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak (1) He was the faqih of Khorasan. Died in 181. He used to say: “The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.”
Ahmad ibn al-Mu’adhdhal (.1)
‘Abdullah ibn Maslama ibn Qa‘nab at-Tamimi (2)
‘Abdu’r-Rahman ibn Mahdi ibn Hassan al-‘Anbari (2)
Muhammad ibn ‘Umar ibn Waqid al-Waqidi (2)
Abu ‘Umar Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Ya‘qub ibn Isma‘il (4)
Abu Bakr ash-Shibli (4)
IN SYRIA
Abu Mushir ‘Abdu’l-A‘la ibn Mushir al-Ghassani (2)
IN EGYPT
‘Ali ibn Ziyad al-Iskandarani (1)
Asbagh ibn al-Faraj ibn Sa‘id ibn Nafi‘ (1)
Abu ‘Amr Al-Harith ibn Miskin (1)
‘Abdullah ibn Wahb ibn Muslim al-Qurayshi (2)
Abu ‘Amr Ashhab (2)
Al-Mufaddal ibn Fadala (2)
‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abdu’l-Hakam ibn A‘yam (3)
IN NORTH AFRICA
‘Abdullah ibn Ghanim, the Qadi (1)
‘Ali ibn Ziyad at-Tunisi al-Absi (1)
Al-Bahlul ibn Rashid (1)
Abu Muhammad ‘Abdullah ibn Farrukh al-Farisi (1)
‘Abdu’r-Rahman ibn al-Qasim al-‘Utaqi (1)
Abu Sa‘id Sahnun ibn Sa‘id ibn Habib at-Tanukhi (1)
Asad ibn al-Furat ibn Sinan (2)
‘Abdullah ibn Abi Hassan Al-Yahsubi (2)
Abu Kharija ‘Anbasa ibn Kharija al-Ghafiqi (2)
‘Abdu’r-Rahim ibn ‘Abdu Rabbih ar-Raba‘i (2)
Muhammad ibn Sahnun (.2)
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn ‘Abdus ibn Bashir (2)
Ibn Talib (3)
‘Isa ibn Miskin ibn Mansur ibn Jurayh ibn Muhammad (3)
Ahmad ibn Mu‘attib ibn Abi’l-Azhar (3)
Yahya ibn ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Amir al-Kindi (3)
Jabala ibn Hammud ibn ‘Abdu’r-Rahman ibn Jabala (3)
‘Abdu’l-Jabbar ibn Khalid ibn ‘Imran as-Sirrati (3)
Hamas ibn Marwan ibn Simak al-Hamsani (4)
Abu ‘Uthman ibn al-Haddad (4)
Abu Fadl Yusuf ibn Masrur (4)
Abu Bakr ibn al-Lubbad (4)
Abu’l-Fadl Al-Mimmisi (4)
Rabi‘ al-Qattan (4)
IN ANDALUSIA
Ziyad ibn ‘Abdu’r-Rahman (1)
‘Abdu’l-Malik ibn Habib (1)
Yahya ibn Ma‘mar ibn ‘Imran ibn Mutays ibn ‘Ubayd (1)
Muhammad ibn Bashir al-Qadi (2)
Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (3)
Muhammad ibn Waddah ibn Bazi‘ (3)
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Baz (3)
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad ibn ‘Abdu’r-Rahman (4)
Aslam ibn ‘Abdu’l-‘Aziz (4)
Ahmad ibn Baqi ibn Makhlad (4)
The Generations:
(T) Tabi‘in, died 100-140
(TT) Tabi‘i’t-Tabi‘in, died 140-170
(1) First generation, died 170-200
(2) Second generation, died 200-230
(3) Third generation, died 230-270
(4) Fourth generation, died 270-310
