Muwatta Malik: Chapter 15

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm that in a letter that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, sent to Amr ibn Hazm it said that no-one should touch the Qur'an unless he was pure.

Malik said, "No-one should carry the Qur'an by its strap, or on a cushion, unless he is pure. If it were permissible to do so, it would also have been permissible to carry it in its cover. This is not because there is something on the hands of the one who carries it by which the Qur'an will be soiled, but because it is disapproved of for someone to carry the Qur'an without being pure out of respect for the Qur'an, and in order to honour it."
Malik said, "The best thing that I have heard about this is the ayat 'None touch it except the purified.' (Sura 56 ayat 79) It ranks with the ayat in Surat Abasa (Sura 80), where Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, says, 'No, it is a reminder, and whoever wishes will remember it. Upon honoured pages, exalted and purified, by the hands of scribes, noble and obedient.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ayyub ibn Abi Tamima as-
Sakhtayani from Muhammad ibn Sirin that Umar ibn al-Khattab was with
some people who were reciting Qur'an. He went to relieve himself and
then came back and recited Qur'an. One of the men said to him, "Amir
al muminin, are you reciting the Qur'an without being in wudu?" Umar
replied, "Who gave you a verdict on this? Was it Musaylima?"'

Yahya related to me from Malik from Dawud ibn al-Husayn from al-
Araj from Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qari that Umar ibn al Khattab said,
"Whoever misses reading his hizb at night and reads it from when the
sun has passed the meridian until the dhuhr prayer has not missed it,
or it is as if he has caught it."

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, "Once
Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban and I were sitting down, and Muhammad
called a man over to him and said to him, 'Tell me what you have heard
from your father.' The man replied that his father had told him that
he went to Zayd ibn Thabit and asked him, 'What do you think of
reciting the whole Qur'an in seven days?' Zayd said, 'That's good,
but I prefer to recite it in two weeks, or ten days. Ask me why that
is.' He said, 'I ask you then.' Zayd said, 'So that I can reflect on
it and pause in it.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az-
Zubayr that Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qari said that he had heard Umar
ibn al-Khattab say, "I heard Hisham ibn Hakim ibn Hizam reciting Surat
al-Furqan (Sura 25) differently from me, and it was the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who had recited it to
me. I was about to rush up to him but I granted him a respite until he
had finished his prayer. Then I grabbed him by his cloak and took him
to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
and said, 'Messenger of Allah, I heard this man reciting Surat al-
Furqan differently from the way you recited it to me.' The Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'Let him go.'
Then he said, 'Recite, Hisham,' and Hisham recited as I had heard him
recite. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, 'It was sent down like that.' Then he said to me,
'Recite' and I recited the sura, and he said, 'It was sent down like
that. This Qur'an was sent down in seven (different) ways, so recite
from it whatever is easy for you .' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar
that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
said, "A man who knows the Qur'an well is like a man who has a hobbled
camel. If he takes care of it, he keeps it, and if he lets it go, it
gets away."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his
father from A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, that al-Harith ibn Hisham asked the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, "How does the
revelation come to you?" and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "Sometimes it comes to me like the
ringing of a bell, and that is the hardest for me, and when it leaves
me I remember what it has said. And sometimes the angel appears to me
in the likeness of a man and talks to me and I remember what he says."

A'isha added, "I saw it coming down on him on an intensely
cold day, and when it had left him his forehead was dripping with
sweat."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his
father said that Abasa (Sura 80) was sent down about Abdullah ibn Umm
Maktum. He came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, and began to say, "O Muhammad, show me a place near you (where
I can sit)," whilst one of the leading men of the idol worshippers was
in audience with the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, began to turn
away from him and give his attention to the other man, and he said to
him, "Father of so-and-so, do you see any harm in what I am saying?"
and he said, "No, by the blood (of our sacrifices) I see no harm in
what you are saying." And Abasa - "He frowned and turned away when
the blind man came" - was sent down.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from his
father that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, was on one of his journeys, and one night Umar ibn al-Khattab,
who was travelling with him, asked him about something, but he did not
answer him. He asked him again, but he did not answer him. Then he
asked him again, and again he did not answer him. Umar said, "May your
mother be bereaved of you, Umar. Three times you have importuned the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, with a
question and he has not answered you at all."

Umar continued,
"I got my camel moving until, when I was in f ront of the people, I
feared that a piece of Qur'an was being sent down about me. It was not
long before I heard a crier calling for me, and I said that I feared
that a piece of Qur'an had been sent down about me." He continued, "I
came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, and said, 'Peace be upon you' to him, and he said, 'A sura has
been sent down to me this night that is more beloved to me than
anything on which the sun rises.' Then he recited al-Fath (Sura 48).

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Muhammad
ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Harith at-Taymi from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar Rahman
that Abu Said said that he had heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, say, "A group of people will appear
among you whose prayer, fasting and deeds will make you think little
of your own prayer, fasting and deeds. They will recite the Qur'an,
but it wil not get past their throats, and they will pass through the
deen like an arrow passes through game. You look at the arrowhead, and
you see nothing, and you look at the shaft, and you see nothing, and
you look at the flights, and you see nothing. And you are in doubt
about the notch."

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that it took
Abdullah ibn Umar eight years to learn Surat al-Baqara. (Sura 2)

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Yazid, the mawla
of al Aswad ibn Sufyan, from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar Rahman that Abu
Hurayra recited al-Inshiqaq (Sura 84) to them and prostrated in it.
When he had finished he told them that the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, had prostrated in it.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi, the mawla of Ibn Umar
that a man from Egypt told him that Umar ibn al-Khattab recited Surat
al-Hajj (Sura 22) and prostrated twice in it, and then said, "This
sura has been given special preference by having two prostrations in
it."

Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Dinar said, "I
saw Abdullah ibn Umar prostrate twice in Surat al-Hajj (Sura 22)."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from al-Araj that
Umar ibn al Khattab recited Surat an-Najm (Sura 53) and prostrated in
it, and then got up and recited another sura.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab once recited a piece of Qur'an requiring a prostration while he was on the mimbar on the day of jumua, and he came down and prostrated, and everyone prostrated with him. Then he recited it again the next jumua and everybody prepared to prostrate but he said, "At your ease. Allah has not prescribed it for us, unless we wish." He did not prostrate, and he stopped them from prostrating.

Malik said, "The imam does not come down and prostrate when he recites a piece of Qur'an requiring a prostration while he is on the mimbar." Malik said, "The position with us is that there are eleven prescribed prostrations in the Qur'an, none of which are in the mufassal." Malik said, "No-one should recite any of the pieces of Qur'an that require a prostration after the prayers of subh and asr. This is because the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade prayer after subh until after the sun had risen, and after asr until the sun had set, and prostration is part of the prayer. So no-one should recite any piece of Qur'an requiring a prostration during these two periods of time." Malik was asked whether a menstruating woman could prostrate if she heard some-one reciting a passage of Qur'an requiring a prostration, and he said, "Neither a man nor a woman should prostrate unless they are ritually pure." Malik was asked whether a man in the company of a woman who was reciting a passage of Qur'an requiring a prostration should prostrate with her, and he said, "He does not have to prostrate with her. The prostration is only obligatory for people who are with a man who is leading them. He recites the piece and they prostrate with him. Some one who hears a piece of Qur'an that requires a prostration being recited by a man who is not leading him in prayer does not have to do the prostration."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abdullah
ibn Sasaca from his father that Abu Said al-Khudri heard a man
reciting Surat al-Ikhlas (Sura 112), repeating it over and over again.
In the morning he went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, and mentioned it to him, as if he thought little
of it. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "Bythe One in whose hand my self is, it is equal to one
third of the Qur'an."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ubaydullah ibn Abd ar-Rahman
that Ubayd ibn Hunayn, the mawla of the family of Zayd ibn al Khattab,
said that he had heard Abu Hurayra say, "I was going along with the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he
heard a man reciting Surat al-Ikhlas (Sura 112). The Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'It is
obligatory,' and I asked him, 'What is, Messenger of Allah?' and he
said, 'The Garden.' I wanted to tell the man the good news but I was
afraid that I would miss the midday meal with the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and I preferred to eat with
the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. When
I went to the man afterwards I found that he had gone."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Humayd ibn
Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf had told him that Surat al-Ikhlas (Sura 112) was
equal to a third of the Qur'an, and that Surat al-Mulk (Sura 67)
pleaded for its owner.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla of Abu
Bakr, from Abu Salih as-Samman from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Whoever says
'There is no god but Allah, alone, without any partner. The Kingdom
and praise belong to Him and He has power over everything' (La ilaha
illa'llah, wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu'l mulku wa lahu'l hamd, wa
huwa ala kulli shay'in qadir) one hundred times a day, it is the same
for him as freeing ten slaves. One hundred good actions are written
for him and one hundred wrong actions are erased from him, and it is a
protection from Shaytan for that day until the night. No-one does
anything more excellent than what he does except someone who does more
than that."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla of Abu
Bakr, from Abu Salih as-Samman from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Whoever says,
'Glory be to Allah and with His praise' (Subhana'llah wa bi-hamdihi)
one hundred times in a day will have his wrong actions taken away from
him, even if they are as abundant as the foam on the sea."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Ubayd, the mawla of
Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, from Ata ibn Yazid al-Laythi that Abu
Hurayra said, "Whoever says 'Glory be to Allah' (Subhana'llah) thirty-
three times and 'Allah is Greater' (Allahu akbar) thirty-three times
and 'Praise be to Allah' (al-hamdu lillah) thirty-three times, and
seals the hundred with 'There is no god but Allah, alone without any
partner. The Kingdom and praise belong to Him and He has power over
everything' (La ilaha illa'llah, wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu'l mulku
wa lahu'l hamd, wa huwa ala kulli shay'in qadir) after every prayer
will have his wrong actions forgiven him even if they are abundant as
the foam on the sea."

Yahya related to me from Malik that Umara ibn Sayyad had heard
Said ibn al Musayyab say about abiding good deeds that they were a
slave's saying 'Allah is greater' (Allahu akbar) and 'Glory be to
Allah' (Subahana'llah) and 'Praise be to Allah' (al-hamdu lillah) and
'There is no god but Allah and there is no power and no strength
except by Allah.' (La ilaha illa'llah wa la hawla wa la
quwwata illa bi'llah.)

Yahya related to me from Malik that Ziyad ibn Abi Ziyad said that
Abu'd-Darda had said, "Shall I not tell you the best of your deeds,
and those that give you the highest rank, and those that are the
purest with your King, and are better for you than giving gold and
silver, and better for you than meeting your enemy and striking their
necks?" They said, "Of course." He said, "Remembrance (dhikr) of Allah
ta ala."

Malik related to me from Nuaym ibn Abdullah ibn al-Mujmir from
AIi ibn Yahya az-Zuraqi from his father that Rifaa ibn Rafi said, "One
day we were praying behind the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, when the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, raised his head from ruku and said, 'Allah hears
the one who praises Him' (Sami Allahu liman hamidah). A man behind him
said, 'Our Lord, praise belongs to you - blessed, pure and abundant
praise' (Rabbana wa laka'l hamd, hamdan kathiran tayiban mubarakan fihi). When
the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had
finished, he said, 'Who was it who spoke just now?' The man said, 'I
did, Messenger of Allah,' and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, 'I saw more than thirty angels rushing
to it to see which one of them would record it first.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from
Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, said, "Every prophet is given a supplication (dua), and I
wish to preserve my dua as intercession for my community in the next
world.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that he had
heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, used to say the following dua, "O Allah, it is You who makes
the dawn break and makes the night a time for rest and appoints the
sun and moon to reckon by. Relieve me of debt and enrich me from
poverty and let me enjoy my hearing, my sight and my strength in Your
way."

Allahumma faliqa'l isbah, wa ja ila'l-layli sakana, wa
'sh-shamsi wa'l-qamari husbana. Iqda anniy addayna, wa'ghnaniy mina'l
faqr. Na'mti aniy bi samiy wa basariy, wa quwwatiy fi sabilik.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z Zinad from al-Araj
from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, said, ''When you are making dua do not say; 'O Allah,
forgive me if You wish. O Allah, forgive me if you wish.' You should
be firm in your asking, for there is no compelling Him."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abu Ubayd,
the mawla of Ibn Azhar, from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "You will be answered
as long as you are not impatient and say, 'I have made a dua and I
have not been answered .' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abu Abdullah
al-Agharr and from Abu Salama from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Our Lord, the
Blessed and Exalted, descends every night to the heaven of this world
when the last third of the night is still to come and says, 'Who will
call on Me so that I may answer him? Who will ask Me so that I may
give him? Who will ask forgiveness of Me so that I may forgive him?' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Muhammad
ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Harith at-Taymi that A'isha, umm al-muminin said,
"I was sleeping by the side of the Messenger of Allah, mayAllah bless
him and grant him peace, and I missed him in the night, so I felt for
him with my hand and I put my hand on his feet and he was in sajda
saying, 'I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your wrath, and in Your
pardon from Your punishment, and in You from You. I cannot enumerate
Your praises as You praise Yourself.' "

Audhu bi ridaka min
sakhatika, wa bi muafatika min uqubatika wa bika minka, la uhsiy
thana'an alayka, anta kama athnayta ala nafsika.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ziyad ibn Abi Ziyad from
Talha ibn Ubaydullah ibn Kariz that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said, "The best dua is dua on the day
of Arafa, and the best thing that I or the Prophets before me have
said is 'There is no god but Allah, alone, without any partner' (La
ilaha illa'llah, wahdahu la sharika lah.)"

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'zZubayr al-Makki from
Tawus al-Yamani from Abdullah ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to teach this dua in the
same way that he would teach them a sura of the Qur'an, "O Allah, I
seek refuge in You from the torment of Jahannam, and I seek refuge in
You from the trial of the Dajjal, and I seek refuge in You from the
trial of life and death."

Allahumma inniy audhu bika min
adhabi jahannama, wa audhu bika min adhabi'l-qabri, wa audhu bika min
fitnati'l-mahya wa mamati.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z Zubayr al-Makki from
Tawus al-Yamani from Abdullah ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to say, when he rose for
prayer in the middle of the night, "O Allah, praise belongs to You.
You are the light of the heavens and the earth and praise belongs
toYou.You are the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and praise
belongs to You. You are the Lord of the heavens and the earth and
whoever is in them. You are the Truth, and Your words are true. Your
promise is true, and the meeting with You is true. The Garden is true
and the Fire is true and the Hour is true. O Allah, I submit toYou and
I accept You and I trust in You and I turn to You and I argue by You
and I summon toYou for judgement. Forgive me what I have sent before
me and what I have left behind, what I have kept secret and what I
have proclaimed, You are my god - there is no god but You."

Allahumma laka'l-hamdu anta nuru's-samawati wa'l-ardi, wa laka'l-hamdu
anta qayamu's-Samawati wa'l-ardi, wa laka'l-hamdu anta
rabbu's-Samawati wa'l-ardi,wamanfihina.Anta'l-haqqu,waqawluka'lhaqqu,
wa waduka'l-haqqu, wa liqa'uka haqqun, wa jannatu haqqun, wa naru
haqqun, wa sactu haqqun. Allahumma laka aslamtu, wa bikaamantu,
waalayka tawakaltu, wa ilayka anabtu, wa bika khasamtu, wa ilayka
hakamtu, fa'ghfirliy ma qadamtu wa akhartu wa asrartu, wa alantu. Anta
ilahiy, la ilaha illa ant.

Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Abdullah ibn
Jabir ibn Atik said that Abdullah ibn Umar had come to them in Bani
Muawiya, one of the villages of the Ansar, and said, "Do you know
where the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
prayed in this mosque of yours? "I told him, "Yes," and I pointed out
a place near where he was. He said, "Do you know the three things for
which he made dua here?" I said "Yes." He said, "Tell me them then." I
said, "He asked that He would not make an enemy from among the non-
believers triumph over the believers and that He would not destroy the
believers by bad harvests, and he was given both these things. And he
asked that He would not make the believers fight among themselves, and
that was refused." Ibn Umar said, "You have told the truth," and he
added, "Turmoil will not cease until the day of rising."

Yahya related to me from Malik that Zayd ibn Aslam used to say,
"No-one makes a dua without one of three things happening. Either it
is answered, or it is stored up for him, or wrong actions are atoned
for by it."

Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Dinar said,
"Abdullah ibn Umar saw me when I was making dua and I was pointing
with two fingers, one from each hand, and he forbade me."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn
al-Musayyab used to say, "A man is raised by the dua of his son after
his death." He spoke with his hands turned upwards, and then lifted
them up.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his
father said, "The following ayat was sent down about dua - 'And do not
be loud in your prayer and do not be silent in it, but seek a way
between these.' " (Sura 17 ayat 110)

Yahya said that Malik
was asked about making dua in obligatory prayers and he said, "There
is no harm in making dua in them."

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to
make dua saying, "O Allah, I askYou for good actions and for leaving
what is disapproved of and for love of the poor. And if You wish to
try people, then bring me to You without being tried."

Allahumma inniy asa'luka fala'l-khayrati, wa tarqa'l-munqarati, wa
hubba'l-masakin, wa idha aradta fi'n-nasi fitnatan fa'qbithni ilayka
ghayra maftun.

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "No
one calls to guidance without having the same reward as those who
follow him without diminishing their rewards at all. And no one calls
to error without having the same burdens as they do without
diminishing their burdens at all."

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abdullah
ibn Umar said, "O Allah, make me one of the leaders of the people of
taqwa ."

Allahumma jalniy min a'imati'l-mutaqin.

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abu'd-Darda
used to rise in the middle of the night and say, "Eyes have slept, and
stars have set, and You are the Living and Self Subsistent."

Namat'l uyun wa ghariti'n-nujum wa anta'lhayyu-l-qayyum.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn
Yasar from Abdullah as-Sunabihi that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said, "The sun rises and with it is a
horn of Shaytan and when the sun gets higher the horn leaves it. Then
when the sun reaches the meridian the horn joins it and when the sun
declines the horn leaves it, and when the sun has nearly set it joins
it again." The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, forbade prayer at these times.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his
father said that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, used to say, "Delay the prayer when the edge of the sun
appears until it is completely in view, and delay the prayer when the
edge of the sun is disappearing until it has completely disappeared."

Yahya related to me from Malik that al-Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman
said, "We visited Anas ibn Malik after dhuhr and he stood up and
prayed asr. When he had finished his prayer, we mentioned doing
prayers early in their time, or he mentioned it, and he said that he
had heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, say, the prayer of the hypocrites, the prayer of the
hypocrites, the prayer of the hypocrites is that one of them sits
until the sun becomes yellow and is between the horns of Shaytan, or
on the horn of Shaytan, and then gets up and rattles off four rakas,
hardly remembering Allah in them at all.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar
that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
said, "You should not intend to pray either at sunrise or sunset."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban
from al Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, forbade prayer after asr until the sun
had set, and prayer after subh until the sun had risen.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar from
Abdullah ibn Umar that Umar ibn al-Khattab used to say, "Do not intend
to do your prayer at either sunrise or sunset, for the horns of
Shaytan rise with the rising of the sun and set with its setting."

Umar used to beat people for that kind of prayer.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from as-Sa'ib ibn
Yazid that he saw Umar ibn al-Khattab beating al-Munkadir for praying
after asr.