Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik - Arabic English

The Muwaa' contains a record of the exemplification by the last Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, of the message of the Qur'an, the practice ('amal) of the people of Madinah of the first generations, a transmission of the ethos that permeated the city, and Imam Malik's painstaking clarification of the Sunna, the adiths, the practice and legal judgements. Ash-Shafi'i said, "After the Book of Allah, there is no book on the face of the earth sounder than the book of Malik." 'Ala' ad-Din Maghlaay al-anafi said, "The first person to compile the ai was Malik." Ibn ajar said, "The book of Malik is sound by all the criteria that are demanded as proofs in the mursal, munqai' and other types of transmission." As-Suyui followed Ibn ajar's judgement and said, "It is absolutely correct to say that the Muwaa' is sound (ai) without exception." Al-Bukhari and Muslim transmitted most of its adiths and included them in their ai collections. The authors of the rest of the six books, the Imam of the adith scholars, Amad ibn anbal, and others did the same.