MILLATI: Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2024): MILLATI

Critical Approach in the Transmission of al-Syaibānī's Version of al-Muwatta Mālik in Iraq

M. Shofiyyuddin (UIN Salatiga, Indonesia)
Machasin (UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Jafar Assagaf (UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia)



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Publish Date
01 Aug 2025

Abstract

This paper investigates al-Syaibānī’s transmission activities on Mālik's al-Muwaṭṭa`. Investigating al-Syaibānī's transmission on Mālik's al-Muwaṭṭa` provides an alternative discourse on the motivation of al-Syaibānī's transmission on al-Muwaṭṭa` where he was part of the Iraqi jurisprudential community. al-Muwaṭṭā` is a representation of the legal material that represents the legal community in Medina. This research was conducted by textually comparing al-Syaibānī’s version of al-Muwaṭṭa` circulating in Iraq with two versions of Mālik's followers living in Medina and al-Andalūs, namely, Abū Muṣ'ab and Yaḥyā al-Laiṡī. The text is then analyzed for its response, commentary and the composition of al-Syaibānī's al-Muwaṭṭa`. The result of this study found that al-Syaibānī's narration activity of al-Muwaṭṭa` illustrates critical transmission; al-Syaibānī compared al-Muwaṭṭa's authoritative tradition from Medina with the Iraqi tradition that al-Syaibānī followed. al-Syaibānī, in this comparison, of course used argumentative material, from within the tradition he followed, whose authority was equal to or higher than al-Muwaṭṭa's authority. Al-Syaibānī took the text of al-Muwaṭṭa` as authoritative to argue legitimacy for the practice of al-Syaibānī's community in Iraq. The last point is that al-Syaibānī transmitted al-Muwaṭṭa`, instead of following the text, he opposed the ruling in the text. He took and brought in a text that had a higher authority than that of al-Muwaṭṭa'Mālik, even though the text did not come from Kufa but from Basra.

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MILLATI

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Religion Arts Humanities Other

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MILLATI is a journal of Islamic studies and humanities published by Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Salatiga. Millati invites researchers, academics and parties concerned in the field of Islamic Studies and Humanities to contribute in the scientific publications. Millati invites manuscripts in the ...