al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Royal Moroccan Edition: The Recension of Yaḥyā Ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī (Harvard Series in Islamic Law)

859 Pages·2019·4.362 MB·English

by  Imam Mālik b. Anas, Mohammad Fadel (editor), Connell Monette (editor)

Al-Muwatta
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Editorial Board
Harvard Series in Islamic Law
General Editor
Intisar A. Rabb
Editorial Board
Khaled Abou El Fadl, UCLA School of Law
Aslı Bâli, UCLA School of Law
Maribel Fierro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University
Hossein Modarressi, Princeton University
Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard University
Mathieu Tillier, Université Paris-Sorbonne
M. Qasim Zaman, Princeton University
Al-Muwatta
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by Ma¯lik b. Anas (d. 179/795)
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[The Recension of Yahya¯ b. Yahya¯ al-Layth¯ı (d. 234/848)]
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A translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition
Edited and translated by
Mohammad Fadel & Connell Monette
Published by the
Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
Distributed by Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2019
Library of Congress Control Number:
2019946147
Copyright 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 978-0-6742413-5-0
Arabic Edition Team
Editorial Committee
Dr. Mohamed Raoundi, Member of the High Council of Religious Scholars
Dr. Driss Ibn Daouia, President of the High Council of Religious Scholars,
Larache Branch
Dr. Mohamed Azzeddine Mayar El Idrissi, President of the High Council of
Religious Scholars, Marrakesh Branch
With the Assistance of:
Prof. Driss Elhamdaoui, Faculty of Islamic Law, Fez
Dr. Lahoucine Ait Said, Member of the High Council of Religious Scholars
Dr. Abdelhafid Doumar, Faculty of Humanities, Oujda
Dr. Abdellah Lansari, Representative of the Ministry of Endowments and
Islamic Affairs, Marrakesh
Prof. Abdelmjid Mouhib, Dar al-Hadith al-Hasaniyya
Dr. Mohammed Guennoun Hassani, President of the High Council of
Religious Scholars, Tangiers Branch
English Translation Team
Chief Editor
Dr. Connell Monette, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
Co-Editor and Mālikī Law Specialist
Dr. Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
First Draft Translators
Dr. Ali Azeriah, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
Dr. Mohamed Ouakrime, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
Research Assistants
Shuaib Ally, University of Toronto
Lahoucine Amedjar, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
Dawud Nasir, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

Contents
Muwaṭṭaʾ
English Translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition
of Imam Mālik b. Anas’ : An Introduction 1
Muwaṭṭaʾ
Introduction to the Translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition
Muwaṭṭaʾ
of the , Recension of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī 7
Arabic Introduction to the Royal Moroccan Edition of the 39
Ṣalāt
Ṭahāra
Book 1: The Book of Obligatory Prayer ( ) Times 73
Ṣalāt
Book 2: The Book of Ritual Purity ( ) 83
Sahw
Book 3: The First Book of Prayer ( ) 109
Ṣalāt al-Jumuʿa
Book 4: Forgetfulness in Prayer ( ) 129
Ṣalāt
Book 5: The Book of the Friday Congregational Prayer ( ) 131
Ṣalāt al-Layl
Book 6: The Book of Prayer ( ) during Ramadan 139
Ṣalāt al-Jamāʿa
Book 7: The Book of the Night Prayer ( ) 141
Ṣalāt
Book 8: The Book of the Congregational Prayer ( ) 149
ʿĪd
Book 9: The Book of Shortening the Prayer ( ) 157
Ṣalāt al-Khawf
Book 10: The Book of the Two Feasts ( ) 177
Ṣalātal-Istisqāʾ
Book 11: The Book of the Prayer of Danger ( ) 181
Qibla
Book 12: The Book of the Prayer for Rain ( ) 187
Book 13 : The Book of the Prayer Direction ( ) 191
Janāʾiz
Book 14: The Book of the Quran 195
Zakāt
Book 15: The Book of Funerals ( ) 209
Ṣiyām
Book 16: The Book of the Alms-Tax ( ) 221
Laylat al-Qadr
Book 17: The Book of Fasting ( ) 253
Iʿtikāf
Book 18: The Book of the Night of Power ( ) 271
Ḥajj
Book 19: The Book of Pious Seclusion ( ) 275
Jihād
Book 20: The Book of Pilgrimage ( ) 281
Ḍaḥāyā
Book 21: The Book of Campaigning for the Sake of God ( ) 357
Book 22: The Book of Sacrificial Animals ( ) 377
Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ
viii
Aqīqa
Book 23: The Book of the Newborn Sacrifice (ʿ ) 381
Dhabāiḥ
Book 24: The Book of Domesticated Animals Slaughtered for
Ṣayd
Ordinary Use ( ʾ ) 383
Nudhūr
Book 25: The Book of Wild Animals ( ) 387
Farāʾiḍ
Book 26: TheBook of Vows ( ) 393
ʿAtāqa Walā
Book 27: The Book of Mandatory Inheritance Shares ( ) 401
Book 28: The Book of Manumission ( ) and Patronage ( ʾ) 421
Mukātab
Book 29: The Book of the Slave Who is a Party to a Manumission
Contract ( ) 435
Tadbīr
Book 30: The Book of a Master’s Designation of Slaves for
Nikāḥ
Manumission Upon His Death ( ) 463
Ṭalāq
Book 31: The Book of Marriage ( ) 473
Raḍāʿa
Book 32: The Bookof Divorce( ) 493
Buyūʿ
Book 33: The Book of Breastfeeding ( ) 531
Aqḍiya
Book 34: The Book of Sales ( ) 537
Shufʿa
Book 35: The Book of Judicial Rulings ( ) 599
Musāqāt
Book 36: The Book of the Right of First Refusal ( ) 643
Kirāʾ
Book 37: The Book of Irrigation Partnerships ( ) 649
Qirāḍ
Book 38: Leasing Out ( ) Farmland 657
ʿAql
Book 39: The Book of Investment Partnerships ( ) 659
Qasāma
Book 40: The Book of Compensation ( ) Due for Battery 677
Rajm
Book 41: The Book of Collective Oaths ( ) 701
Ḥudūd
Book 42: The Book of Lapidation ( ) and Mandatory
Sariqa
Criminal Punishments ( ) 709
Book 43: The Book of Theft ( ) 719
Book 44: The Book of Beverages 727
Book 45: The Book of Miscellaneous Matters 731
Glossary of Proper Names 787
Glossary of Terms 795
Bibliography 807
Index 811
Muwaṭṭaʾ
Kingdom of Morocco National Library, MS No. J787: Colophon of the
manuscript, copied by Ibn al-Ṭallāʿ, dated 595 AH.