Muwatta' Malik 19-2

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that when A'isha was doing itikaf she would only ask after sick people if she was walking and not if she was standing still. Malik said, "A person doing itikaf should not carry out obligations of his, nor leave the mosque for them, nor should he help anyone. He should only leave the mosque to relieve himself. If he were able to go out to do things for people, visiting the sick, praying over the dead and following funeral processions would be the things with the most claim on his coming out." Malik said, "A person doing itikaf is not doing itikaf until he avoids what some one doing itikaf should avoid, namely, visiting the sick, praying over the dead, and entering houses, except to relieve himself."

Notes

• قالَ يَحْيى، قالَ مالِكٌ: لاَ يَأْتِي المُعْتَكِفُ حاجَةً. ولاَ يَخْرُجُ لَها. ولاَ يُعِينُ أحَدًا. إلاَّ أنْ يَخْرُجَ لِحاجَةِ الإنْسانِ. ولَوْ كانَ خارِجًا لِحاجَةِ أحَدٍ، لَكانَ أحَقَّ ما يُخْرَجُ إلَيْهِ، عِيادَةُ المَرِيضِ، والصَّلاَةُ عَلى الجَنائِزِ واتِّباعُها. قالَ يَحْيى، قالَ مالِكٌ: ولاَ يَكُونُ المُعْتَكِفُ مُعْتَكِفًا، حَتّى يَجْتَنِبَ ما يَجْتَنِبُ المُعْتَكِفُ. مِن عِيادَةِ المَرِيضِ، والصَّلاَةِ عَلى الجَنائِزِ، ودُخُولِ البَيْتِ، إلاَّ لِحاجَةِ الإنْسانِ.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  اختلف فيهما أصحاب الزهري عليه

  in موطأ مالك, p. 640
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  الحديث محفوظ

  in موطأ مالك, p. 640
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  بين أصحاب ابن شهاب فيه ضروب من الاضطراب

  in موطأ مالك, p. 640
• محمد بن يحيى الذهلي

  ذكره في كتاب العلل حديث الزهري معلا له

  in موطأ مالك, p. 640

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 295Sahih al-Bukhari 5925Sahih Muslim 297bal-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 3326Musnad Abi Ya'la 4632

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   أن
2. 2
   ʿAmrah bt. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārīyah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī said: it is said she died in the year ninety-eight. Abū ʿUbayd Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ said: she died in 106 AH; Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: she died in 103 AH.
   عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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