Muwatta' Malik 57-2

Translation

Malik related to me from his paternal uncle Abu Suhayl ibn Malik from his father that Abu Hurayra said, "Do you think that it is red like this fire of yours? It is blacker than tar."

Notes

• وَالْقَارُ الزِّفْتُ

  machine translationAl-qār is pitch (al-zift). Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث مالك عن عمه موقوف على أبي هريرة ومعناه مرفوع لأنه لا يدرك مثله بالرأي ولا يكون إلا توقيفا

  machine translationThe hadith of Mālik from his paternal uncle is stopped (mawqūf) at Abū Hurayrah, but its meaning is raised (marfūʿ), because the like of it cannot be arrived at by personal opinion and can only come from a transmitted text (tawqīf). Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1766
• Dāraquṭnī

  والصحيح موقوف

  machine translationThe correct view is that it is mawqūf (a statement of a Companion). Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1766

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Mālik b. Abī ʿĀmir al-Aṣbaḥī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 74 AH, and from al-Wāqidī: 112 AH, al-Mizzī said: it is undoubtedly an error
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Suhayl b. Mālik

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 140 AH
   أَبِي سُهَيْلِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقة
   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

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