Malik ibn Anas

Malik ibn Anas

Malik ibn Anas (Arabic: مَالِك بن أَنَس, ‎ 711–795 CE / 93–179 AH), whose full name is Mālik bin Anas bin Mālik bin Abī ʿĀmir bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith bin Ghaymān bin Khuthayn bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥī al-Ḥumyarī al-Madanī (Arabic: مَالِك بِن أَنَس بِن مَالِك بن أَبِي عَامِر بِن عَمْرو بِن ٱلْحَارِث بِن غَيْمَان بِن خُثَين بِن عَمْرو بِن ٱلْحَارِث ٱلْأَصْبَحِي ٱلْحُمَيْرِي ٱلْمَدَنِي), reverently known as al-Imām Mālik (Arabic: ٱلْإِمَام مَالِك) by Sunni Muslims, was an Arab Muslim jurist, theologian, and hadith traditionist. Born in the city of Medina, Malik rose to become the premier scholar of prophetic traditions in his day, which he sought to apply to "the whole legal life" in order to create a systematic method of Muslim jurisprudence which would only further expand with the passage of time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malik ibn Anas has received more than 1,109,820 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Malik ibn Anas is the 202nd 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.