Al-Muwatta of Imam MalikAl Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas Arabic and English. The authors of the rest of the six books, the Imam of the hadith scholars, Ahmad ibn Hanbal message of the Qur'an, the practice ('amal) of the people of Madinah of the first generations, a transmission of the ethos that permeated the city, and Imam Malik's painstaking clarification of the Sunna, the adths, the practice and legal judgements. Ash Shafi'i said, "After the Book of Allah, there is no