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saying to him: Disagreement found way among people of Iraq, so you are asked to compile a book upon which you gather and unite them, hence he compiled al-Muwatta'. In another narration, he said to him also: In it (book) you should avoid oddities of Ibn Abbas, intensities of Ibn Umar and permissions of Ibn Mas'ud. Malik said to him: O Amir al-Mu'minin it is not for us to compel people to follow and adhere to utterance of one man liable to err and be correct. And, as stated before, al-Mansur was so much concerned with hadith and studying it. Ibn Abd al-Barr reported that the first who compiled a book in al-Madinah on the basis of the meaning of al-Muwatta' as unanimously concurred by men of al-Madinah was Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Salamah al-Majshun (d. 164 H.), which was reviewed by Malik before compiling his Muwatta'.
Criticism of Ibn Mu'in to Malik:
Ibn Mu'in said: Malik was not a man of hadith but a man of opinion. Al-Layth ibn Sa'd said: I have counted seventy issues for Malik, all of which being contradictory to the Messenger'' Sunnah.
Malik admitted this fact, and al-Daraqutni compiled a booklet containing the traditions recorded by Malik in al-Muwatta' and other books, that were contradictory (to the Messenger's Sunnah). This booklet is kept at al-Zahiriyyah Library in Damascus.
Al-Bukhari and His Book
Full name of al-Bukhari is Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari al-Farsi. He was born in Bukhara in 194H. He made trips to several countries, seeking for hadith, starting to compile chapters of his book in the Holy Sanctuary. It took him sixteen years to compile and classify it in Basrah and other places till completing it in Bukhara. He died in Khartang near Samarqand in 256 H.
In Muqaddimat Fath al-Bari,557 Ibn Hajar reported that Abu Ali
557. Fath al-Bari, p.4.
