The reports of Imam Malik between the science of Hadith and the jurisprudential argument
This research aims to demonstrate the significance of the
difference arising from the classification of narrators and its impact on the
acceptance of a hadith based on the narrator's integrity, even if its structure
contradicts the general rules of acceptance established by hadith scholars to
determine the status of both the narrator and the narrated material. This
relates to a crucial reason for rejecting a hadith: the continuous break in the
chain of transmission, which hadith scholars describe as problematic due to the
difficulty of reconnecting it.
balaghat malik were studied to clarify this issue, given the
importance of. Malik's integrity in both the hadith and jurisprudential
schools. This is evident in the mursal hadiths he included in his Muwatta'
using the phrase "it reached me," and those found in the Mudawwana
narrated from him using the same phrase, thus combining two considerations:
hadith methodology and jurisprudential argumentation