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Moslem traditions are valuable not only in themselves, but also because they are the roots from which grew the more important legal, historical, and biographical studies and literature. However formless and temporary the written collections of traditions remained in the Umaiyad period, there was a real beginning in the writing of books on these allied subjects. The celebrated handbook for lawyers, the Muwatta, of Milik ibn Anas, a jurist of Medina (d. 179/759-6), was preceded by similar works, none of which has survived, for instance, by Mohammed ibn cAbd al-Rahman al-cAmirl (d. 120/737), Sacid ibn Abi cArfiba (d. 156/773), and cAbd al-Mdlik ibn Juraij (d. 150/767). The first of them, al-cAmiri, was, like Milik ibn Anas, a pupil of al- Zuhri, and his work, which bore the same title, Al-Muwattfa, was considered by some Arabic critics as superior to the later one which has survived.27 Although this type of book incidentally preserves traditions, that is not its primary purpose, which is rather to establish a system of law based on the customary procedure of Medina. Although Mdlik's book was written in the early days of the Abbasids, it is the fruit of earlier legal studies and practi

Author

Ruth Stellhorn Mackensen

Published

1937

Language

EN