# Did Imam Malik wear an earring?

*Imam Malik's earring: the biography by Mufti Abu Layth's teacher and the Maliki sources*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/6/
- Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (19:33–22:12)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=1173s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/

**Topics:** Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Imam Malik

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes: his teacher's biography of Imam Malik records that Malik, while still a youth studying with Rabi'a, had an earring in his ear, and another Maliki work on the hadith of the Mudawwana says the same.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that Imam Malik wore an earring as a young man while studying with Rabi'a, as recorded in his teacher Abd al-Ghani al-Daqr's biography of Malik and in another Maliki source.

**Evidence, his words at 21:01:** “at this time Malik was still bursting with youth he was a young man Maya's a law court Maya's a law court people feel Denis he he still had an earring on in his ear” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=1261s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says that Imam Malik, the scholar of Madinah, wore an earring, and cites the biography of Malik written by his own teacher Shaykh Abd al-Ghani al-Daqr [?], one of the great ulama of Sham, in a series on the great Imams. He describes his teacher as an old man with a great sense of humour, well known throughout the Arab world, who gave a weekly lesson in a Damascus mosque on a commentary of Bukhari, was deemed the most knowledgeable person of his era in the Kitab of Sibawayh, won countless awards, and was fascinated to meet a Maliki of Pakistani origin. In that book, he says, the author relates that Malik was fortunate to study with Rabi'a, one of the great scholars of Madinah, and that while still bursting with youth he had an earring in his ear. He adds that another Maliki scholar, in the introduction to a work on the hadith of the Mudawwana [?] whose edition was checked by a Sudanese shaykh, records the same thing.

## Sources and names cited

- Imam Malik
- Shaykh Abd al-Ghani al-Daqr [?]
- Rabi'a al-Ra'y
- report: malik studied with rabia while still bursting with youth and he had an earring in his ear
- Sibawayh
- al-Mudawwana

## Transcript (machine tier, 19:33–22:12)

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[20:24] weekly darts from fertile valley teaching a commentary on Bihari and he was deemed the most knowledgeable person we kitabi siebel way in his era in his time this was we're talking like the 90s and so on he won like countless awards for his knowledge on things like that and he was really fascinated by the way when he met me especially me being Pakistani of ethnically and being Maliki he found that very unique now that time I served these long curtains and I mentioned used to find that very fascinating my kind of but I used to have a likes to always meet him in that musty than and chat to him about

[21:01] issues but in his book he begins where he's speaking about imam malik and he says well the thurible Rabia and imam malik was fortunate to then he really pounced on this opportunity to study with Ravi - Ravi one of the great element of Medina and he says what Wafi may are Titian and he was still you know at this time Malik was still bursting with youth he was a young man Maya's a law court Maya's a law court people feel Denis he he still had an earring on in his ear

[21:40] this is who Imam Malik this is then transmitted again by another you got another scholar Maliki scholarship I heard mohammed ur diri who wrote a book which was then authorized and you know his part of his tacky Kamel kora is a Sudanese great chef I mean he's got hadith the rules there on YouTube and things like that in his book is the reach of the hadith of the Madonna in the introduction to Imam Malik he mentions the same thing work an AVI or Imam Malik would have an earring in his ear especially when he was a young

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment pkjtq8AXGRE/s/6. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/6/

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