Muwatta' Malik 51-1

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Bakr ibn Nafi from his father Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered the moustache to be trimmed and the beard to be left.

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  هذا هو الصحيح عن مالك في إسناد هذا الحديث كما رواه يحيى وسائر الرواة عن مالك

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1670
• Dāraquṭnī

  وهو الصحيح

  machine translationAnd this is the correct one (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1670

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 53Sahih Muslim 261bSunan Ibn Majah 293Musnad Ahmad 25060al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3217al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9261al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9262

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   Nāfiʿ mawlá Ibn ʿUmar

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AH
   نَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Bakr b. Nāfiʿ

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 131 and 140 AH
   أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ نَافِعٍصدوق
   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

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.