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How did the Maliki school spread to North Africa and Spain?
fiqah jurisprudence fikh madhab mazhab school of law madhahib mazahib madhaahib imaam imams prayer leader maaliki malikite malikiyyah fatwa fatwah fatwaa fataawa legal opinion muftis haraam forbidden sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat andalusia moorish spain ulama ulema ulamaaHow the Maliki school spread beyond Arabia, to al-Andalus and Basra
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school had already spread in Imam Malik's lifetime through North Africa to al-Andalus, and into Iraq, especially Basra.
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Asked how the Maliki madhhab moved from the fiqh of central Arabia to that of North Africa, Mufti Abu Layth says it had spread in Imam Malik's own lifetime all the way to the Iberian peninsula, through North Africa. It also spread, he says, into the Middle East and Iraq. He says Basra had a strong Maliki representation, Baghdad too, and less so Kufa, and names Maliki scholars associated with Basra, among them al-Abhari [?] and Ibn al-Jallab [?], some of whom moved between Baghdad and Basra.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedHow did the Maliki madhhab move from the fiqh of central Arabia to the fiqh of North Africa?
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Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school had spread in Imam Malik's lifetime all the way to the Iberian peninsula, through North Africa.
“the maliki method had spread in imam malik's lifetime all the way to the iberian peninsula which was spain it went through via north africa”
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sidratul muntaha so i asked him i said what is this [Laughter] he said is this tree sidra tree i said at the end of creation and he said and i said so what does this tree do there and you know there was this huh what and all of them you know ali and all they were like i was like so what does this tree do at the end of creation so there's like nothing and there's a tree [Laughter]
ah sometimes it's just that we've not been asking the right questions people the truth is often hidden in plain sight remember that how did the maliki mother move from the fair of central arabia to the fair of north africa the maliki method had spread in imam malik's lifetime all the way to the iberian peninsula which was spain it went through via north africa but it also spread into the middle east into iraq and there were many major malekies in iraq bashara was actually heavily maliki as in not heavily maliki but it had a
strong maliki representation um not so much kufa but basra and baghdad did as well but basra especially so many of these maliki's are from basra you know like you'll get wow so you'll get a lot of these uh uh abhari would have been there you'll get a lot of these uh i don't know jalab these are all associated with basra
you're going to get just tons of them lazy and but so these are lazy and you'll get a lot of these uh that will move back and forth muhammad uh what even they will move between baghdad and basra sometimes but there was a strong representation uh mufti is it true in imam malik's playing chess is haram i thought chess was introduced to the muslim world after the conquest of persia
no playing chess is not haram um yeah chess wasn't there in the time of the prophet not amongst the immediate arabs um so i'm not saying he wasn't there in the world but in the prophet society people didn't play chess but in the time of the companions it was introduced so there's a lot of discussions that the companions have over chess some in favor some against but it's not haram the there are some fatal in the in the muaffakat of imam ashatabhi he goes through imam alex fatawa on chess and things and
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, February 16). How did the Maliki school spread to North Africa and Spain? [Video, segment 2021-02-16-S34, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/34/
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