The Mālikīs

Siwāhum fīhim al-ʻakar wa-al-ghuthāʼ . Allāh yastur wa-al-marʼ maʻa man aḥabb wa-al-saʻīd man nahaḍa wa-habba wa-ʻalá al-ṭāʻah akabba wa-Allāh al-muwaffiq al-hādī .

( al-Mālikīyah )

al-Fuqahāʼ al-Mālikīyah ʻalá khayr wa-ittibāʻ wa-faḍl in salima quḍātuhum wa-muftūhum min al-tasarruʻ ilá al-dimāʼ wa-al-takfīr fa-inna al-ḥākim wa-al-muftī yataʻayyan ʻalayhi an yurāqib Allāh taʻālá wa-yataʼanná fī al-ḥukm bi-al-taqlīd wa-lā siyyamā fī irāqat al-dimāʼ fa-Allāh taʻālá mā awjaba ʻalayhim taqlīd imāmihim fa-lahum an yaʼkhudhū wa-yatrukū kamā qāla al-imām Mālik raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá : kull aḥad yuʼkhadh min qawlihi wa-yutrak illā ṣāḥib hādhā al-qabr ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam . Fa-yā hādhā idhā waqafta ghadan bayna yaday Allāh taʻālá fa-saʼalaka lima abaḥta dam fulān fa-mā ḥujjatuka ? In qulta qalladtu imāmī yaqūl laka : fa-mā anā awjabtu ʻalayka taqlīd imāmika , thabata anna al-nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam qāla « awwal mā yuqḍá bayna al-nās fī al-dimāʼ » wa-fī al-ḥadīth «lā yazāl al-marʼ fī fusḥah min dīnihi mā lam yatanadd bi-dam ḥarām» naʻam man raʼaytahu zindīqan ʻadūwan lillāh taʻālá fa-ittaqi Allāh fīhi wa-ariq damahu ibtighāʼ wajh Allāh taʻālá baʻda an tastaftī qalbaka wa-tastakhīr Allāh fīhi (١) .

— al-ḥawāshī —

[12] (١) al-zindīq al-mutaẓāhir bi-al-Islām al-mustamirr ʻalá dass sumūmihi bayna al-muslimīn lā yumkin izālat sharrihi wa-fasādihi ghāliban idhā qubilat tawbatuhu — bi-iʻtibār ḥukm al-dunyā — kullamā abdá zandaqah li-annahu lā yataḥāshá an yatalawwan bi-kull lawn wa-an yaẓhar bi-kull maẓhar wa-lā yastaqirr