The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth

let's speak a little bit about Imam Malik because I want to speak um introduce him as a personality and we can then go on to taking some of you live the legend people of Imam Malik ibnes Allah let me just leave that up there and I'll just see I did you know I because there's so much to say I did think to myself you know I'll just make some little tiny bullet points so I don't forget

um because about Imam Malik we have to really do multiple sessions we can always come back to the Imam because this is so much about him if I right so oh damn what have I just done Okay so

let's start off with a brief introduction Imam Malik his name okay now he is born in Medina in 92 or 93 history so that's about 80 to 83 years after the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam he is of our of Arab origin as you'd imagine he's from a tribe known asbah he's called

very famous tribe and the hemir um are a well-known um Branch if you like [Music] they were involved in many uh dynastic kind of mini um maybe not Empires but small uh scale civilizations in southern Arabia pre-islam so there's a lot of history to the hemorrhoids and you can check that up and maybe we'll cover that in another day they have more from um and we can I have got a a Mind Trap

where I discussed the Arab lineage and and stuff and there is this huge thing on a side note what is Adnan and hmm maybe a lot of this is reshaped and reformed post-islam especially meant and so people called the katanina and they called the Adnan and that they are from Ismail Islam but then you get many people like right from the sahaba transmit you'll get these people saying no the

qatan is from Ismail Islam they use this Hadith the prophet said they use this Imam bukhari goes with that you get what's his name um uh what's his name is on the tip of my tongue he goes with that a lot of these people seem to um but then as Islam progresses they seem to say no well actually the katanin was separate and these people were

separate and there wasn't really any um foreign there isn't much archaeological evidence to support the whole Kahani thing there was something that was found that said gatan and it wasn't really sure whether carton was was describing a region a settlement or a people but anyway I digress let's get back to the topic IBN Malik and this anas is not the sahaba and the Malik it's just his so Malik so his granddad is called Malik as well

is a companion of the Prophet who witnessed several um battles with the prophet as well so he was that close uh with the prophet Muhammed his son Malik who's Imam Malik's grandad was from the turbine he was somebody that was played a or had a a presence in Medina amongst the Muslims he is one of the few people who prays over uthman when he is murdered um so this is how so this is the kind of

lineage that we're dealing with that you've got wow these people have played such a role in Islam and Imam Malik's father anas he they say Imam Malik does transmit Hadith from him so he may have had some small presence in the Islamic tradition but not much his brother so Imam Malik's Uncle Abu Sohail is known for transmitting Hadith and Imam Malik does transmit from his uncle about swahil so this is the family his father Anis

his wife Imam Malik's mother is Alia um she gives birth to right so his birth as well has some miraculous story to it as many superheroes do so many people transmit from Imam Malik him saying that oh they told me obviously like he says my you know my relatives and Elders told me that my mother was pregnant for three or four years with me now this is an interesting point because it goes back to once again this

discussion we'd had before about how do we approach Islam and science so Imam Malik he says well look this is what people said so you wouldn't really know any different because you would just know that look most people have a baby within let's say eight to nine months in the in this this is how you you would know the average maybe some people have a you know they well to survive given their environment now okay many women claimed to be pregnant for

several years the gestation period now how do we explain this because we know that's impossible so once again we don't take this um see we don't take a dogmatic View well because these people said it must be true but at the same time we're not saying these people were lying because that's not what they you know they don't get anything out of lying about this and it's not that they were ignorant about time they don't understand what one year is or three years are so research in recent times

has shown and several Muslim researchers and medical researchers have found have researched what they call Phantom pregnancies and there's a great um Saudi medical research who's done a lot of work on this and he's done multiple conferences and he's been to these uh um remote uh almost bedouin-like settlements of Arabs and spoken to them where they still have these myths that they where some people feel that such and such woman has been pregnant for two years or and it's interesting

the kind of ethnographic studies that have now been conducted and they shed light so in a phantom pregnancy what happens is a woman and this might come into Matt Walsh's what is a woman but a woman takes on the symptoms of pregnancy so she feels some sickness uh with irregularities of discharge and um a cessation or a lack of menstrual

cycles she develops a bloating a bloated a bloating in in that in the lower abdomen region and not just yeah the kind of lower gut around what would be the womb it gets bloated now the signs are that she's pregnant so people especially given an absence of uh pregnancy test checks and stuff like this so the women in the village or in the the nomadic settlement would say oh well she's pregnant you know she's throwing up she hasn't had her period she's late therefore she's pregnant

and what would happen is this is not a pregnancy now whatever it is there's an abnormality that has resulted in a bloat thickness of around the the womb region which is tied in with why she's not having any menstruation and this has also resulted in an internal hormonal physiological uh presence which has made her sick has made her hormonal has made her so she thinks she's going through a pregnancy but it doesn't continue to it just has some bloating that it is perceptible but

it doesn't seem to grow beyond that it doesn't grow into like a full you know fetus pregnancy so people assume she is pregnant and she just stays like that for months and months and sometimes a year sometimes two years now given modern medicine and and technology and we would clearly know this woman is not pregnant and if she was to resort to medical assistance she would be given the aid that would then restore her to her the homeostasis that she should should be at

but now minus that and the social narrative that she is pregnant she assumes she is pregnant and what happens during this time sometimes some of these women actually become pregnant so now the pregnancy does start to develop so let's say in the second year or in the third year it now starts to grow more and more and more and then she has a baby so people around her don't count the pregnancy from the accounting from the beginning of the phantom pregnancy and they say well um they say that

um these I was just reading women actually give positive pregnancy tests hormonal issue or shukran so this is where you get in the past in some of the the books where people the scholars don't know in that long ago they're just going by science of the age it's like when Imam Malik is asked about uh postnatal bleedings or asked about menstrual cycles and asked about he just says look you just asked the women of your region because you would be an extension of them

ethnically and so on and you'd be similar to them so because they don't know they what are they going to say is it you know some people say 60 days it's 40 days it's this he just says look just ask the women what is it and they'll give you an average so you just go with that so yeah so this was the birth of uh Imam Malik as a young child he um was born and raised in Medina his family were religious but they had some freedoms as they did they weren't um

you know Draconian towards him so he grew up very um just chilled out and he wasn't actually that religious growing up as a kid Imam Malik he was very drawn to music and singing and so he as a young man as a young boy let's say so he wanted to become a singer and he would kind of sing and he would do stuff and he was just more interested in that so he he did like many young boys then he wore an earring um this comes as a surprise to many

people today they think because the I guess the Muslim culture changed over time so then as Islam spread out and the cultures changed many people stopped wearing like they wouldn't wear earrings and so they would think this is only only girls wear earrings but many of the Great imams in the early Islamic period especially in Arabia uh the great had the theme like Imam Malik like Sofia like all these people used to wear earrings used to wear his earrings into his Hadith Das where he would learn Hadith so there were people

later on as they became older older men they stopped wearing them but they weren't it wasn't that they see now the question is people see this is the question where people say oh my god well how could that be because it becomes as a shark because they think it's Haram for men to wear earrings and this is why Iman Malik's fatwa in the uh

is that when he says to make your young boys wear Golden Earrings is macro he doesn't comment on the earring he says because gold you know he says it's better to refrain from gold so he said that it's macro but not about the earring he doesn't say anything because if it's about the earring then you ought to say well wait a minute earrings are wrong like so for example if let's say owning a gun is let's say it's forbidden or it's illegal in let's say if we're using those terms

and if a person says well what if I own the Golden Gun and the person ought to say well guns all together are giving that example so when Imam Malik is asked that about people uh placing Golden Earrings on boys young boys he says that well the he says that gold is not something that really he he's of the he goes with the general understanding that it's makaru he says that this is discouraged because they shouldn't really make them wear gold and it says even though the boys you know they're just young boys but the parents should know better but he

doesn't criticize the earring because in his day and age most boys had earrings um and this is why also the Shia tradition show about the grandsons of the Prophet salallahu with earrings um in their reward when they speak of karbala and things like this that how the the earrings were dangling and things like that but I've got a very detailed video about that but it comes as a culture shock and I get that because people think oh my God how that's not the Islam that we're so perceptibly familiar with but that's very

common because the seller for very early in Islam so their Islam culture hadn't formed clearly or it was still developing it hadn't solidified so if you read about the salaf a lot of them for example had things like the men had ponytails or they had braids many of the men would braid their hair have like these kind of plaits um and and this as you can imagine even today if you saw a man in much of the Muslim world would be really frowned upon but arguably they say in sahil

bukhari the prophet had plans not always but some in in the rewind they say he planted four main plats and tied them but the but today this is because it's not the common culture it comes as a culture shock so yeah so this was Imam Malik's upbringing he was very into music he was very into um singing he was not interested in Islam as much it doesn't mean he was against Islam he just wasn't drawn that way and he asked his mother his mother discouraged him from

his mother you know it's Allah see your destiny determine your destiny his mother gave him that direction and she said she said to him that look and look at the wisdom she didn't say to him to discourage him what the hell are you doing you know this is all uh you know this is wrong and she said to him that she said but look you look at the culture at Large so Imam Malik for people who don't know he was blonde Imam Malik was blonde with blue eyes he wasn't um like dark haired and dark-eyed he was

white and he and so why was he white with blonde hair and blue eyes and this is obviously something coming in his lineage and that's a different discussion how did that get there um is a discussion for you know a more Arab lineage because there were some Arabs that were like that now people may say well that origin somehow came with some whatever it was I don't know but there were certain Arabs like that and Imam Malik was amongst them he was uh he was known as you azarak he had blue eyes and he has ashkar had blonde hair and so his

his mum said to him that look come on you'll never like it just won't fly your project won't take off because people who's gonna come to watch you perform talk about letting him down slowly who's gonna come to watch the Gora yeah she goes look come on let's be real it's not you know nobody's gonna you're not gonna get the it's not gonna work you're blonde your blue-eyed you're this you know in in Arabia it's come on so he was a bit

disheartened his mom had foresight though she said to him look why don't you uh why don't you put your mind to some academic study sure you're gifted in music and stuff like this but what about and here Imam Malik thought okay then and little did he know that this choice of his was to immortalize him forever in Islamic history

that his his thinking his understanding and interpretation of Islam was to go on to shape Islamic civilizations to our very age I mean that well that choice right there between should I become a musician or should I [Laughter] ah it's never too late huh so his mum encouraged him and he listened his elder brother was quite academic islamically and his brother's name was Nadar and this is how Imam Malik would

be known as he oh he's another's brother and because his brother was academic but Imam Malik was just more of a chill you know into music into this is but when he did come on to he put his mind to it and his heart and he was really it Allah opened the path before him that it got to such an extent that his people around him his family his parents his brother everybody eventually came to be known through him that oh that's the father of Malik oh

that's the brother of Malik oh that's the it's wow what you know we don't this is the thing you know that what how is it that foreign have this mindfulness of and Allah will from his gems he will teach you teach you things that you do not believe or can imagine that you will know so this journey began of Imam Malik he had some he had some great teachers

um he had uh teachers Hypno Hormuz he had Arabia was one of the major teachers that would always emphasize to him this the way of the people of Madina it was a very famous statement of rabbit that Mali could continue to utter throughout his life that a thousand from a thousand

is more beloved to me than this one-on-one foreign what was the one-on-one the one-on-one was the Hadith literature it's all one-on-one on one I heard from who heard from who heard from Alf thousand people have picked it have learned it from a thousand people this was the living tradition in Medina is such a powerful concept that

not only that perfectly um instantiates this this debate of Hadith versus Sunnah so these were um Imam Malik's his teachers some of his teachers he he lived in Medina he was a Trader as he grew up he got into trade he was incredibly successful um in trade people said he would um he was a merchant in cloth and things like that he would have Investments coming to Madina he would then trade them in Medina and he made a lot of money from it so he was wealthy and he

took to it to spend money as well he would buy himself expensive suits he would he would spend money he was he was like very not only wealthy but he he enjoyed the world that Allah had given him and he and he took pride in that he wasn't shy about it so sometimes we do have a tradition in Islam where people are very they prefer to almost a a hermetic a hermetics or a hermit kind of or an asceticism that to abstain from the Dunya so there are

there is a tradition like that in Islam but Imam Malik was not from that tradition he spent money he enjoyed money he uh was known to really he was particular about his food as well he would always eat meat I don't think the vegans would have liked him for that matter always on a daily basis he would he said that that meat helps people maintain a strong posture I guess protein is what he was talking

about and he said well it would keep people strong and the faith would if they were people of Faith then people around them felt their presence and by feeling their presence the faith had a presence as in when they spoke of the Deen it had an awe to it so he was very and he was criticized a lot about this kind of stuff so he did he did speak about that let me just oh this I see this just moved yeah so he did um he did do that that was um

his his whole attitude and people used to criticize him that how can you you know it's not from this is Indulgence and but he he what he was who he was the legend Allah and he became so committed to the study of Hadith and ferk and learning that he became an Imam in his age in his lifetime he was so celebrated that everybody people would come to they knew who he was you know they say in Hajj he um

people would follow like they would just see what is Malik doing and they would just imitate that to the extent they say once uh Imam Malik something um he was sitting in I think Mina and as he's sitting something he had this already like a cloak and he got trapped under him under him so he stood up and he straightened his thing and people stood up like they're thinking that they were thinking this is this is the religious

act to do at this stage this is the way that they would copy him and when it came to matters of the faith in Hadith he was untouchable in Hadith his chain is considered by Imam bukhari to be the most strongest chain that exists in Hadith literature it's called the Golden Chain

um from the prophet so between Malik and the prophet there are two people so this is considered the golden chain which is not it's it's in the mothball but it's not the only as in Imam Malik uses other chains but that's in there as well and the mother was one of the first and one of the earliest compendiums of Hadith literature Imam Malik was not trying to compile Hadith as a collective but what he was doing is

putting together a selection okay it is the mother is arguably the most authentic book in Hadith from a hadithi perspective okay it is it naturally it predates it predates by some generations the very existence of Imam bukhar so let alone his book acknowledgment

Imam Malik's chain is it is nothing it is the most authentic chain in the entire Hadith literature this is the position of Imam Malik why do people not put Imam Malik's book as number one because the malikia do and some of the people do Allah and other people do consider them to be the the most authentic book there is but why does why do the shafi's or the other people not the chef dominated the Hadith literature

why do they not consider why do the salafia not consider it why do um and there may be many reasons amongst them that well some people felt well it's well it's it's only a small number of Hadith there's only about 1800 Hadith in there whereas the other books have whether it's going to be seven thousand six thousand four thousand ten thousand twelve thousand and so this is a small collection of Hadith therefore it's not of equal measure that may be a reason another reason is as well that Imam Malik speaks in the model

and you say well what's the problem with him speaking doesn't Imam turmidi speaks in history he says well such and such scholar acted according to this Hadith such and such didn't he says well such and such person is weak such and such person so that's fine you know it's not a uh I would I would sometimes speaks in his uh Imam bukhari sometimes speaks in his book so what's the problem with speaking well it's not speaking per se it's what's being spoke [Laughter]

Imam Malik brings the Hadith not always but he brings the Hadith and then he says we don't act according to this Hadith he says he says you know this Hadith we in our city and here I ask you what city in our city in this city in the one that counts

in the city of the prophet no other City matters it is just Madina full stop so he says we in our city do not act upon this Hadith this is a catastrophic meteor hahaha in the face of the second wave mahadithin project this attitude

so Imam Malik is the part of the first wave of where Hadith is being developed uh not developed it is is development is the Proto stage but now it's being compiled and written and and they are part and parcel of the Hadith project the first era a first wave the second wave is the Mahadev theme like all these people and these people so in the first wave Imam Malik has said this with in the second wave it is all about the Hadith project

to bring a Hadith and say well according in our city we don't practice this you know there's no action this Hadith is not to be actioned in our city Allah that's that's a collision of biblical proportions people for the Hadith dogmatists this is why but then you could say well what makes this worse or more complicated is the person who's saying

it see the person who's saying it is Allah see now Imam Malik in the Islamic Legacy is a force of nature he is that the prophet said that there will be a time you shook that there is almost a time it's almost here it's not here but it's almost

where people will start to rush to seek knowledge they will be you know like a a gold rush they will be an elmrush a knowledge Rush people will come from Far distances to seek knowledge in that time foreign but in that age they will not find anyone more knowledgeable than the Alim of

shortly after the sahaba's time in the turbine time in the late turbine time this culture began where people started to travel to seek knowledge and they say there was never in such an era they were either let's say just shortly before Imam Malik many people in Medina so there was never a scholar that people referred to as the designated skarov Madina they were the for example Imam Malik's teachers

you know that's the poet says and so uh these they were these many ulama of Medina but in Malik's time which is the same time he's growing up but as he grows into an older man and they've all passed away and this era has fully blossomed people are traveling from Horizon people are coming from uh Uzbekistan people are coming from people are coming from andalus Muslim Spain to seek knowledge in that time

there was only one scholar in Medina and that was referred to as that was Imam Malik this is why many Allama said Sophia the other people said we understood this Hadith to be embodied in Imam Malik see this is the status of Malik when it comes to

untouchable when it comes to Hadith he's Amir now what do you do with a guy like that when he says oh this Hadith who's transmitting it I'm transmitting it what Senate are you transmitting it with golden chain nobody can beat this on Earth he says oh yeah that Hadith there is no action upon this Hadith in our city maybe in your city there is but in our city the city of the Prophet we don't act according to that

this was a nuclear fission fusion fission bomb in the face of the later Hadith dogmatist project therefore this is perhaps also one of the reasons that Imam Malik's is not factored into when they say the six major books because the six major books project is a Chevrolet project it's not it's done by people who belong to the shaf who were for the most part are these dogmatists so it it was at loggerhead and and you see it's difficult to criticize Imam

Malik he's he's very you know to criticize him you know well good luck it's difficult people there's other imams who are soft targets every other Imam has some apparent vulnerability Imam was not as good in Hadith people criticized him Imam sure he was not actually as well trained in Hadith people criticized him he wasn't as reliable Imam Ahmed was not as trained in the understanding in the of the team many scholars did not recognize him as much they came up you name the imams many of them

had some weak spot Malik was one of the few Legends of Islam that unanimously everybody held him in all but he just had this Authority about him and so and this is why his mother you see his mother is built on his what his school is built on the Medina the living tradition of Medina this is why we are not Hadith dominates not we who follow the tradition of Medina his school was known as the school of Medina we who follow the school of Medina are

not Hadith dogmatists Hadith relativists as in we embrace the Sunnah where the Hadith correlates with the Sunnah we embrace it where it doesn't we don't Hadith is simply a historical it's just a historical data the Sunnah however is the teaching of the prophet sallallahu in the teen Hadith is a written document Samsung now were documented some so now were never documented some non-sunna actions were documented you see so this is

this is where you appreciate wow the wealth that Imam Malik brings to the Islamic Legacy by documenting these things because if somebody today had tried this they would have been anathematized they would have been excommunicated deemed a car Fair chucked out of Islam they would have all but Imam Malik good luck trying any of that so yeah so this was his and then his mother was built on muscle which is wealthy

so you see his mother of his fatawa this is why Imam Malik is his teacher was rabiatora he is from the people of reason the voice of reason he would make exemptions he would say that even if there is a ruling that has come to us from Islam if the day and age had a welfare that dictated something we would derogate from and make an exception we would make an exemption and an exception from this ruling and you call that

in the molecule so this is why Imam Alex fatawa I like that and his mother is a continuation of that so another cataclysmic Cosmic meteor in the face of dogmatism because Imam Malik's mother was then all about not all about it but people disagree that even malikism always agree on things amongst themselves but this is what it was and we've got to speak about the mother on another day because it's

the only method of the the of Islam that had so much diversity throughout the globe from Spain to the Middle East to Central Africa I mean that's wow Nomad have did that no matter reached that kind of uh geographical diversity so yeah that that's about his um his mother but coming back to him Imam Malik he as a person he spent his early portion of his life

learning knowledge like he says his life could have in hindsight been divided into three he spent the first third learning the second third learning and giving back and the last third primarily just giving back and yeah he was criticized by people for not being seen as someone who was very um immersed in worship so he would not I mean he would pray his and his daily prayers but he wouldn't pray many nothing you wouldn't see him praying

many nothing you wouldn't see him fasting voluntary fasts you wouldn't see this kind of worship uh from him so he was criticized about this a very famous uh incident but Imam Malik responds by saying look somebody says to him why don't I ever see you praying nafal why don't I ever you know you indulge in meat and you have expensive clothes and you you know what is this this is not Islam and Imam Malik's reply to him is actually very beautiful he says that he doesn't diss him he says look I respect what you do

you immerse yourself in worship but he says look we are all upon goodness you worship I teach people I discuss with people I have religious religious discussions I convey the living tradition I expand on ideas religious ideas with people he said look we we all he said it's not that what you are doing is better necessarily than what I'm engaged in

that let us be each to their own the paths to God on manifold and this is once you know there's an incident that Imam Malik was he was sitting there in his student IBN wahab was saying there and it was almost the Adan had gone and Imam and ibrahab was uh he is an Egyptian student he's from the main the main Egyptian students from Imam Malik or Abdullah

these are the main um uh misery and they spent decades with Malik by the way at least two two they spend about two decades and IBN wahab spends three decades with him so closes the book he was making notes and stuff he closes the book to get up to pray nothing and Imam Malik says he says easy there tiger tiger

he says he says he's not stopping him but he says don't be mistaken in assuming that what you're going to do is somehow better than what you were doing huh nothing see those who know it can understand it that there is a there is something about the Legacy about being devoted to learning that don't don't don't don't as underestimate its value don't think somehow going towards nothing is some how more

valuable in the eyes of God than this sure if you want to do it do it he's not stopping him but yeah so this was his lifestyle he had such you know one thing about Imam Malik is he had this that this bewildering love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that once he would not tolerate any disrespect towards the prophet and this isn't about a kind of intolerance this was his love he just

felt he felt once somebody cracked a joke about um something about the prophet's cloak an Imam Malik's reprimanded him that look don't this to us to he said this is the most beloved of people like why are you doing that how could you think that that would be funny to us he declared in Islam that Medina because it's the resting place of the Prophet salallahu alaihi it is the most of the little book it is the

most virtuous place on Earth above Mecca that's and such it is in the Maliki method we consider Medina to be more virtuous than Makkah the other methods disagree but the multimeter beholds Medina to be the most virtuous place so and Imam Malik never left madinah ever he on one occasion he went for Hajj and that was it he said that I refuse to leave the city of the Prophet for anything even prayed he he had people working for him he had intermediaries that would bring goods and stock and and he would have it

traded in Medina but he would never leave Medina he was asked about that and he said that he said that it's not that I haven't considered it but he says that I always think that I want Medina to be my final resting place and what if death is to reach me somewhere else Allah see that's another kind of love that he had for the prophet and this is why his his mother was the most strict when it came to matters of loving the prophet it was not about a kind of barbarism or anything like this

there was just it was a love that's what it was Imam Malik himself never wore shoes in Medina you know in the streets of madin he there he he would wear it around his let's say in his own building in his home and things like this but around the Masjid and those places he would take his shoes off no I don't mean in The Mask I mean the the streets surrounding the area that vicinity and so on because that slightly built a bit more by Imam Malik's time so in those outskirt places fine but as he got closer the vicinity and the streets

and the areas he said that this is certainly where the Prophet so he said that I find it just out of his love this is not an Islamic ruling he said that this that this is where the Prophet set foot so I find it just in myself unacceptable to wear shoes not that he he didn't he didn't object to people doing that he refused to ride any uh ride a horse or a you know a mule or a donkey or anything in those parts of Medina out of love for the prophet sallallahu

you know this is why well when they tried to torture him they tried to punish him so later on Imam Malik gets into some not trouble but that well there's a Revolution going on and Muhammad enough zakiya's Revolution and we could speak about that another day and Imam Malik he's not fond of revolutions but he implicitly lends some support because people say well look

they say well is it permissible we want to we want to support the revolution but we have already pledged our allegiance to and the Abbasi caliph at the time and is it haram and then people had said to them well were you happy when present when you pledged Your Allegiance and they said well we weren't really happy about it we were we were somewhat coerced we had no choice and they asked Imam Malik can you give a

ruling and Imam Malik he wasn't political he didn't want to get involved but he understood the quandary and their dilemma so he said look he said the talaq of a person who is coerced is not a talaq make of that what you will and then he transmitted it as a Hadith which is a Hadith from who from IBN Abbas and who are the rulers

and they said to Imam Malik you're not allowed to transmit you've got to stop transmitting this hubby but the divorce of a coerced person is not a divorce and Malik said but why not he said if you ask me to not get involved in things sure but to not transmit the words of the prophet he said who Do You Think You Are tomorrow

to say Do not transmit the words of the prophet and on purpose Imam Malik transmitted this chain he used the chain going through ibrahamas to say that look for your greed you built this caliphate on the back of IBN Abbas and his teaching of the Prophet today you will sabotage for your Creed let that be a lesson to you let you drop your head and hang your head in shame

and they what they did is they did they beat Imam Malik for that and one of the punishments they did is they made him sit on a donkey and ride that donkey in Medina and Imam Malik would never ride a beast or a donkey or a horse or a mule inside matinee in the inner part of Medina and they made him do it as in they tied him up and put him on this donkey and just as a kind of humiliation

but honor and humiliation is ultimately from Allah today look at the name of him where are those abbasically and those governors that try to humiliate him they apologized later on they tried to apologize to him and say that ah you know said look I'm I don't hold no grudges what's happened to Sam they whipped him

publicly um they they beat him severely publicly and he he he stood he took it they never and then he just kind of kept himself to him see the thing was Imam Malik didn't like the politics he didn't like the bureaucracy even regular things people get shocked that Imam Malik for the last 25 years of his life didn't even attend the local Masjid he did used to teach though at home but he just didn't now people say well why didn't he attend the Masjid why didn't he and then this disturbs them

you see because they have a and say well maybe it's because he was sick maybe but he could teach at home but he it seems that when he was asked about this in one of the narrations he just says that look he says I I don't want to see something that irritates me because then I I can't help but speak if I speak I'm going to create problems what tell you you guys live your life I'm gonna live my life

and that's what it seems to be some people say maybe it was because he his health was really bad after the beating and I doubt it I mean it could be but then he used to teach at home he continues to teach up until his he dedicated so much time so it's not like people say oh he couldn't control his he had incontinence couldn't control his urine if that was the case how was he teaching Hadith at home for hours upon hours he would teach new teach fatwa he would teach all these things right up until his his dying breath so to me it doesn't

seem that but sure people could um could say that and he was uh one of the things that he he had this Integrity about teaching and he did used to say and this it made me think as well you know I came across this recently and I thought yeah I have to start again you know Imam Maliki said that anybody who's who's learned something he said whatever happens never give up teaching says no matter

you know where and how you find yourself in life never let go of the path of teaching yeah I came across this recently and I came across it again recently and I thought I have to teach again [Laughter] ah there is something about about the Legacy

foreign as the poet says that these are titles and these are words they don't increase them in any any kind of Value Inn you know we mention it because it gives us a it gives us a pleasure an enjoyment but I I will continue more about uh Imam Malik but what we can see is there was this man who

as a very young as a young boy he he chose a path that determined his destiny and he struggled along the way as well he met like all of us we will meet our challenges but he gave us a lamp in the darkness because what he did is what we see why is it important is he showed us that you can understand the Deen in this way that there is this muscle how wealthy that there is this Hadith relativism that there is a difference between

Hadith and Sunnah that there are that there is that the Sharia hasid that this is how you can do he taught us that and the person he was his teachings can they can't just they can't just be ignored as in you couldn't just it's not easy to just say well ah it's just it's just Imam Malik he's a legend in Islam so we are very I find myself so it has been one of the joys of learning the legacy of Islam has been this affiliation to the school of Medina

that I found myself honestly in harmony with this school that whenever I had an certain a way of let's say without knowing what things would be or what what do I think Islam would say based on my understanding my understanding often my answer was in line with the school of Medina that there was such a Harmony so yeah and he would and it's fascinating that there were certain verses he would often repeat you would often repeat one was like husband Allah often found Imam Malik

Allah is sufficient for us you know we gotta rely on people let's ride let's rely on why not honestly I sometimes we we are going to ask people for things let's ask Allah just ask God let's see what happens man and and there's another verse that he would often repeat that

that we that at best all we have is conjecture and we lack certainty in this affair wow that we only but think that all we can bring to this table is but an assumption woman

that's a huge man that's huge because let that be a reminder we in this day and age people they they get they freak out if somebody says well I think this is the answer I feel that this is oh no you should say they want I get it the people want certainty they wanted but this realm this whole existence is one the ultimate certainty is just Allah we have to understand that whatever we

think is an answer is ultimately our understanding of what we think is the answer you see whatever we see and understand is limited by our understanding and if we're hearing it from someone it's limited by their understanding and if they heard it from someone it's limited by their understanding so it is ultimately

Imam Ali could often recite that when teaching people when giving them answers about the theme foreign and he left us a very rich tradition the school of Medina he left us his book or the motto it is more a collection of Hadith A small collection about 1800 Hadith his children he had three children I believe he had two boys one girl Muhammad Yahya and Fatima

and what many people may not know it was actually his daughter that that took the the lamp of his legacy and marched forward with it she continued to teach his classes and things after him she was the one that was the most bright and his son um I forget I I think I believe it was uh might have been Yahya or was it Muhammad but his sons were just one of his sons was just barely okay he was never

impressed with his sons he was he really was fascinated with his daughter as in he felt that he was so that she was so intelligent and she was so academically bright that she'd memorized all the Hadith and she would teach and often in his class she would be sitting in a different part of the house but they had sometimes a a bit not they had a um like a curtain and she would be doing some household stuff but if she heard some of the students sitting with Malik make a mistake in the Hadith thinks she would correct it from the other side she

would say what it was she would say that such and such made him a person somebody made a mistake this is how it is Allah and his sons Imam Malik won he they were um they weren't really they never took his place and one of them he was quite disappointed one of them um I think it was yeah it might have been Muhammad he wasn't interested at all in the Legacy and he would often come through walk through the house whilst Imam Malik's class was going on he just had an earring on he would drag his cloth you know how back then you

went went to it was frowned upon to drag your kind of garment behind you the izzar he would often be doing that and he would have a falcon Falcon yeah falcon or Hawk and he would often be playing with he would really loved falconry and so he would be just playing with that and so he'd come through the house with just [Laughter] and then some of the people would be like oh that's that's Imam Malik's son Mali could just be like my Malik would just say to them that well

let's praise God who did not allow knowledge to be something that could simply be inherited see that's a really fast look how Imam Malik saw that he didn't see even though he he may have felt some disappointment but in that disappointment he saw the positive that wow that look at the value Allah left that this is something that one must struggle for to determine it to determine their own destiny in it it is not something that you could

simply inherit of love that is that is wow even in that he saw it as a a positive reminder so people let's wrap up with that on the legacy of the legend Imam Malik