Muwatta' Malik 43-40

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sad ibn Zurara that he had heard that Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ killed one of her slave-girls who had used sorcery against her. She was a mudabbara. Hafsa gave the order, and she was killed. Malik said, "The sorcerer is the one who uses sorcery for himself and no one else uses that for him. It is like the one about whom Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted, said in His Book, 'They know the one who devotes himself to it will have no share in the Next World.' (Sura 2 ayat 102) I think that that person is killed if he does that himself."

Notes

• قَالَ مَالِكٌ السَّاحِرُ الَّذِي يَعْمَلُ السِّحْرَ وَلَمْ يَعْمَلْ ذَلِكَ لَهُ غَيْرُهُ هُوَ مَثَلُ الَّذِي قَالَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى فِي كِتَابِهِ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمُوا لَمَنِ اشْتَرَاهُ مَا لَهُ فِي الآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلاَقٍ فَأَرَى أَنْ يُقْتَلَ ذَلِكَ إِذَا عَمِلَ ذَلِكَ هُوَ نَفْسُهُ

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Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28491Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29583Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 18825al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18723al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18724

Narrators

1. 1
   Ḥafṣah bt. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 41 AH, also said: 45 AH, also said: 50 AH, also said: 27, which is an error
   حَفْصَةُ بِنْتُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأم المؤمنين
   بلغه
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 124 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زُرَارَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   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

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