Al-Muwatta', according to the tradition of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan aš-Šaybānī: The Smooth Path

The “Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ” (The Levelled Path), composed by Mālik ibn Anas, the Imam of Medina, is of particular importance as the oldest and most meticulously compiled collection of hadith: an unsurpassably authentic testimony to the social, legal, political, economic and worship practices of the first Muslim community, and at the same time the basis of Islamic jurisprudence.