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Four Schools / Founder
Founder of the Mālikiyyah school and one of the formative imams of Sunni jurisprudence.
School
Mālikiyyah
Legacy
Jurisprudence, transmitted knowledge, and the enduring formation of Sunni legal method.
Biography sections
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Mālik ibn ʾAnas
Source cautions and the evidentiary basis used throughout the biography.
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The main biographical controls were Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ’s Tartīb al-Madārik, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr’s al-Intiqāʾ, adh-Dhahabī’s Siyar ʾAʿlām an-Nubalāʾ, and the early material incorporated into az-Zurqānī’s introduction to the Muwaṭṭaʾ. The most consequential manāqib were checked against the critical comments preserved by adh-Dhahabī rather than repeated from devotional summaries.