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🔍 Interested in the history of Al-Andalus, the North African Desert, and the Maliki school. Researcher at @usul_ai and Arabic teacher
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I have requested a PDF of this article. Will post some interesting debates from it.

Al-Muhala from Ibn Hazm is a master piece. Imam Dhahabi once mentioned it's a must have for a Faqih. Many times ibn Hazm pokes at the Malikiyah and their opinions...

There is was also a big response from the Malikiyah as well back on him during that era.
Qāḍī Abū Bakr b.al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148) in his al-ʿAwāṣim min al-qawāṣim

Though he was somewhat harsh in his criticism of his opponents

He states:

One of the Umayyads arrived in these lands [i.e., al Andalus] where heen countered a strong attachment [to the Umayyads and their cause]. The people revolted together with him and he manifested justice. He said: I shall defend the sunna

; for there is no jurisprudence but that of the people ofMedina and no reading [of the Qurʾān] but theirs. He thus compelled peopleto act according to the school of Mālik and to recite the Qurʾān according to the transmission of Nāfi. He did not allow people to investigate and chooseregarding the requirements of proof when this departed from the opinion ofthe Medinese. This was due to the fact that they, that is, the Umayyads, saw Mālik’s veneration of their forebears . . . 


He later says:

Whenever someonearrived from the East with [new] knowledge, they harassed and disparaged him, unless he outwardly maintained the Mālikī rite and made whatever sci-ence he possessed subject to it.


From the article

Refutations of Ibn Ḥazm by Mālikī Authors from al-Andalus and North-Africa.
Imam Dhahabi on ibn Hazm:

His independent legal reasoning led him to reject all analogy, beit apparent or hidden, and to embrace the external meaning of the text,the general sense of the Qurʾān and ḥadīth the original absence of liabilityand the presumption of continuity. He compiled many books on this anddebated about it. He spoke and wrote at length, but did not address the imāms with civility. In fact, he was crude in speech, was abusive and actedderisively. As a result, he was repaid in kind, as a group of imāms turned away from and renounced his works. They scared people away from themand, in time, they were burned. Other religious scholars took an interest inthem and scrutinized them,finding both fault and benefit, borrowing someand censuring some.

-Siyar
Please excuse me for the recent texts and how it is written.

It is from a PDF and I can't edit because it will change more.
📜 Al-Muhallā by Imām Ibn Hazm al-Andalusī

ibn ‘Abd as-Salām:

I have not seen, in all the books of knowledge in Islam, anything comparable to ibn Hazm’s al-Muhallā nor Shaykh Muwaffaq ad-Dīn (Ibn Qudamah) al-Mughnī.
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🔍al-Dhahabī added: ‘Shaykh ‘Izz al-Dín spoke the truth!

📍And the third is al-Bayhaqi’s al-Sunan al-Kabir,
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📍and the fourth is Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr’s al-Tamhid.

Whoever acquires these (four) volumes, whilst being an intelligent mufti, and persists in reviewing them, then he truly is a scholar.’

(Siyar 18:193)
This Helmet is the last known type of armor to survive from the Nasiri Era, Spain.

15th century.

It is said to belong to the last king of Grenada of al-Andalus before being reconquered.

It is found in New York City.

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When our Shaykh, Sa’īd al-Kamalī, was in Qurtuba a few years ago.

Just imagine, the Shaykh is carrying the same legacy of scholarship his ancestors did in al-Andalus.

May Allah protect him. Amīn.
New map on battles in al-Andalus found. May not be accurate in dates.
How the Masājid of Al-Andalus would look like.

This one was in the city of Zaragoza.