The Importance Of Imam Muhammad

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narrate a hadith while walking. Instead, when asked about a hadith, he would stop, sit down, and give the hadith the attention it deserved, out of respect for Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. This type of extra respect and meticulousness out of respect for Prophet Muhammad ﷺcertainly is not mandatory according to Islamic law, but simply a sign of the emphasis Imam Malik placed on the importance of Muhammad ﷺ.
Among Imam Malik’s sayings are:
1. “The Sunnah is the ark of Nuh. Whoever boards it is saved, and whoever remains away perishes.”
2. “Knowledge does not consist in narrating much. Knowledge is but a light which Allah places in the heart.”
3. “None renounces the world and guards himself without then ending up speaking wisdom.”
4. When Imam Malik embarked on the study of Islamic sciences with a teacher, his mother advised him to “learn from your teacher his manners before you learnnfrom him his knowledge.”
Where they reside:
Imam Malik’s ideology on fiqh developed into the Maliki madhab (school). As Imam Malik wished, it was not imposed on Muslims as the sole school of Islamic law. Instead, it complemented the other three schools that took precedence in the Sunni Muslim world – the Hanafi, Shafi’i, and
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Khul’ is when the wife requests to dissolve the marriage and the husband agrees
3. Faskh is when the judge annuls the marriage mainly because it is invalid because of the absence of one or more elements required for the marriage to be valid or when the two people concerned are unmarriageable
4. Tatliq is divorce initiated by the Islamic judge when one of the spouses commits a crime which brings hardships in the relationship
5. Zihar is the divorce that results when a husband gives his wife the status of a woman who is prohibited to him in marriage
6. Ila is not a divorce but a period of 4 months during which the man does not get intimate with his wife due to an oath taken by him
7. Li’aan divorce resulting from sworn accusation of adultery by a husband against his

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