# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:27:41.083Z

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name: "Malik ibn Anas"
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description: "An eighth-century jurist in Medina whose legal rulings became doctrine across half the Sunni world. His compilation of hadith and law, al-Muwatta', earned praise as \"the soundest book on earth after the Quran\" and made his name shorthand for orthodoxy from North Africa to Iraq."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 711 in Medina into the Humayr clan of Quraysh, Malik studied under scholars including Ja'far al-Sadiq and Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, rising to become what his contemporaries called the Imam of Medina—the premier hadith scholar of his generation. In the early Abbasid period, amid fierce disagreement over even elementary questions of Islamic law, he compiled al-Muwatta', an attempt to chart a "smoothed path" through jurisprudence by tracing the consensus and practice of Medina. The work became one of the oldest surviving Muslim law books and earned Malik epithets like Proof of the Community and Knowledgeable Scholar of Medina. His legal method cohered into the Maliki school, which became the normative rite across North Africa, al-Andalus, much of Egypt, and beyond, while Sufi orders like the Shadili and Tijani also adopted his teachings. His student al-Shafi'i, who would found his own legal school, said of him: "When the scholars of knowledge are mentioned, Malik is the star." He died in 795, venerated across Sunni tradition as both jurist and saint.