Primary Sources Consulted
Mālik ibn ʾAnas
The principal chronicles, biographical works, and transmitted source collections.
- Mālik ibn ʾAnas, al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, especially the recensions of Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ash-Shaybānī.
- At-Tirmidhī, al-Jāmiʿ, no. 2680, with his comments on the identity of ʿālim al-Madīnah.
- Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī, Sharḥ Mushkil al-ʾĀthār, 10/186–190.
- Ibn Saʿd, aṭ-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, biography of Mālik.
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Intiqāʾ fī Faḍāʾil al-Aʾimmah ath-Thalāthah al-Fuqahāʾ.
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, at-Tamhīd and the works connecting and explaining the reports of the Muwaṭṭaʾ.
- Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ, Tartīb al-Madārik wa-Taqrīb al-Masālik.
- Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ, ash-Shifāʾ bi-Taʿrīf Ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafā.
- ʾAbū Nuʿaym al-ʾAṣbahānī, Ḥilyat al-ʾAwliyāʾ, biography of Mālik.
- Al-Bayhaqī, Manāqib ash-Shāfiʿī.
- Adh-Dhahabī, Siyar ʾAʿlām an-Nubalāʾ, vol. 8.
- Ash-Shāṭibī, al-Iʿtiṣām, especially the discussion of Mālik as a sign of adherence to the Sunna.
- Az-Zurqānī, Sharḥ ʿalā Muwaṭṭaʾ al-ʾImām Mālik, vol. 1, introduction.