Recordings › The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth · 10 Mar 2023 › Segment 5 of 14
What did Imam Malik's teachers teach him about hadith and Sunnah?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith imaam imams prayer leader muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice al-madinah madeenah yathribMalik's teachers and Rabi'a's 'a thousand from a thousand'
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machinesummary, machine-writtenRabi'a taught him that a practice transmitted by a thousand from a thousand outweighs a hadith passed one from one, the living tradition of Madinah.
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Mufti Abu Layth names Ibn Hurmuz and Rabi'a among Malik's teachers, saying Rabi'a always stressed the way of the people of Madinah. He quotes Rabi'a's famous saying, which Malik repeated throughout his life, that a thousand from a thousand is more beloved to him than one from one: the one-from-one being the hadith literature, and the thousand-from-a-thousand the living tradition of Madinah, which he says perfectly instantiates the debate of hadith versus Sunnah.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Rabi'a's saying 'a thousand from a thousand is more beloved to me than one from one' perfectly instantiates the debate of hadith versus Sunnah.
“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”
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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
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@misc{abulayth-2023-03-10-S05, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{What did Imam Malik's teachers teach him about hadith and Sunnah?}}, year = {2023}, month = {3}, date = {2023-03-10}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/5/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/5/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2023-03-10-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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