Suhaib Webb – Did Imam Malik Conspire With The Ommayids & Other Questions

Assalamu alaikum. We're

here in Granata in Andalusia. Interestingly enough, right,

the answers that I'm about to give

are kind of contextually appropriate for this moment.

Not only was this the land of the

Madoces, right, in general, but also

disunity is what caused us to lose this

land. Muslims have always lost because of themselves.

And that disunity is very important. It rots

at our ability to gather collective strength.

And also it is important to defend the

Imamatic and the institutions

of the ilm because without the ulema

and the institutions of knowledge,

we're left with absolutely nothing, man. And that's

why we have to be very careful and

that's why the scholars said be very careful

of those people who constantly try to undermine

those institutions in the ulama.

But there are a number of things that

have been said about Imam Malik that demand

an answer. And this also is not an

attack against the Shia brothers and sisters. I

believe that pragmatic unity

and recognized differences are key to success of

the Muslim Ummah.

But let's start with a few of these.

Number 1,

the idea that Imam Malik radiAllahu an who

somehow,

like, collaborated with the Amo'is when he wrote

the Mu'ata

to spread a certain type of understanding.

The Amo'is disappeared in 132 after Hijri. It's

agreed

upon that Imam Malik

wrote the Mu'ata around 147 after Hijri. And

it's certain, as Sheikh Abu Fattah Barood mentions,

that he finished it in 158 after history.

So that's impossible.

Like, there's no way that he would have

met them and been able to do that.

Chronologically, that makes no sense.

The second concern is that he did not

narrate from the family of the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam.

However, there are numerous ahadith

with the senate

from Ja'far ibn Muhammad

radiallahu anhu from his father, Muhammad al Bakr,

in the Muwata,

that Imam Malik narrated from them, and he

considered them both authentic narrators, alhamdulillahirabbah. I mean,

of course, they're Imams of the Ummah.

The last is that Imam Malik did not

narrate Hadith

about Saydna Adi

Again this is a mistake.

Oftentimes what I see is that people don't

have the knowledge.

They haven't actually studied the books. They haven't

gone through the books.

They haven't reviewed the books. They haven't sat

with their ulama.

But I actually noted

in studying the Mu'ta,

21 narrations.

Of Sayidina Imam Malik

back to Sayidina Adi Karamalawaj.

So those are some answers I hope they

help Barakalahu. Now, last month, I thought it'd

help us, especially in this moment, to appreciate

what happens

when disunity takes us over and we weaken

our ranks.