Malik ibn Anas

Malik ibn Anas

Malik ibn Anas (Arabic: مَالِك بْن أَنَس, romanized: Mālik ibn Anas; 711–795 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, and theologian. Born in Medina, Malik rose to become the premier scholar of hadith in his day, seeking to apply to "the whole legal life" to create a systematic method of Islamic jurisprudence that would only further expand over time. Referred to as the Imam of Medina by his contemporaries, his views in matters of jurisprudence became highly cherished both in his own life and afterward, becoming the eponym of the Maliki school, one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malik ibn Anas has received more than 1,343,690 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Malik ibn Anas is the 208th most popular religious figure (down from 197th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 18th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Saudi Arabian Religious Figure.

Malik ibn Anas is most famous for his book, Al-Muwatta, which is one of the earliest books of Islamic law.