al-Muwatta & al-Mudawwana [al-Kubra] | Mufti Abu Layth

tell me the difference in the m and the M yeah the m is a um a collection of Hadith by Imam Malik in which he does comment as well he gives his viewpoints and you can kind of sense an ideology Loosely um I'm using the word ideology but methodology I guess you can Loosely sense it it's in the background and um it's got about it varies thetion probably about 1800 approximately 18 1900 some maybe 2,000 Hadith in the book

what is interesting is Imam Malik um uh what is interesting is Imam Malik does um he does state after certain Hadith we don't follow this Hadith which is interesting because he's presenting the concept that the Hadith is comes with the sil the golden chain which is considered by IM bukari you know the most authentic chain in Islam which is Malik from the prophet so it's just two people between Malik and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and it's and he even with certain Hadith with the

golden chain he rejects them says I don't you know we don't it's not about him rejecting it he's saying he's teaching your methodology he's saying that we don't practice according to this Hadith it's got a meaning sure what does it mean what is it reality we don't know because we don't practice according to it and that's you see you start to see the difference between the mad and which is a distinction and it's interesting because IM Malik is also but he's also about about that you know reason the voice of reason so I

think that's um that's fascinating um all right so that's fascinating now um the m is different the m is f ruling so people have uh what you had was some of his students or if you like their disciples what they decided to do is there was a bunch of it's like saying there was so many class notes that were being pass down so people would attend Imam Malik's lecture they would write notes and these were known as and they would call

them of which is plural both are plural uh of let's say such and they were named after the student so the of let's say or the of such and such person or or so on now people would take their notes and say oh so IM Malik said this so s wanted to to refine it um and so he actually took it wasn't the S he took the uh the from umat who was a student of IM Malik who actually created a unique text what he did is he went to the Hani

hotlands and he took uh he took down notes of Hani contrasted with Malik and this was the first ever you know comparative book called The so he makes this and what happens is he comes back and he he wants to because his with Maliki was weak so he wants to get it from you know OB IM Malik has passed away when he comes back and so he goes to the key students and gets their answers to the hanfi ones and what he thinks is Malik so he says what's the answer to this what's the answer to this

and they keep saying you know we think we think you know I feel it was like this but it's okay if you're saying I feel or I think but they saying I think Imam Malik would have said this so it's it's different so he and he writes it down and this becomes his book The and what happens is s he reads it and thinks you know what this book would be epic if we kind of structured it and we put it in order and we gave it sequence and we put Hadith in there and we put some evidences and we got rid of all this I think and just had

it categorized so he goes toim and says look let's do this and IIM eventually agrees and and he refines the m and this becomes known as the m so it is basically a series of which is in probably in printting about five volumes maybe depends on the publishing house and it has about 30 Maybe 35,000 questions in there which are being answered and where the person is saying that IIM is saying I asked IM Malik about this and he said this I asked him about this and he said this so

that's what it is it's a f book and but then there's other F books in the Malik this Wasim but other people did it as well other students so like ABD Hakim you know the uh he um he would have had the the m uh the you would have had you would have the you know the so there were many other texts that were being documented as well but that's a lengthy discussion for another day inshallah