The Madhab of Imām al-Awzā’ī (d. 157 H.) is the first jurisprudential school that the people of al-Andalus knew.
Al-Ḥumaidī said in the biography of Sa’sa’ah b. Salām:
❝He was Andalusi, Faqīh, one of the companions of al-Awzā’ī, and he was the first to introduce the Awzā'ī school into al-Andalus. He died in the year 192 H.❞
• Source: al-Muqtabas, pg. 237.
Adh-Dhahabī said:
❝Al-Awzā’ī had an independent Madhab, which was followed by the Fuqahā of Shām for a while, and the Fuqahā of al-Andalus for another while; and then it went extinct.❞
• Source: Siyar A’lām an-Nubalā, (7/117).
‘Abd al-Bāset al-Fākhūrī said:
❝The people of Shām and their neighbors and the people of al-Andalus followed on the Awzā’ī Madhab for about two hundred and twenty years.❞
• Source: Tuḥfat al-Anām Mukhtasar Tārīkh al-Islām, pg. 82.
↪️Then it was followed by the Madhab of Imām Mālik (d. 179 H.).
Al-Ḥumaidī said in the biography of Ziyād b. ‘Abd ar-Raḥman b. Ziyād:
❝He was the first to introduce into al-Andalus the jurisprudence of Mālik ibn Anas. And before this it was followed the Awzā’ī Madhab [in al-Andalus], Ziyād died in al-Ándalus the year 193, and it was also said that he died in the year 199. Ibn Ḥazm said: he died in the year 204.❞
• Source: al-Muqtabas, pg. 212.
↪️And followed, by last, by the Madhab of Imām Dāwūd adh-Dhāhirī (d. 270 H.).
Ibn al-Farḍī said in the biography of ‘Abd-Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Qāsim al-Qurtubī:
❝He went to Iraq, he met Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd al-Qiyāsī, and wrote about him all his books and introduced him into al-Andalus. He was followed by the people of his time, the knowledge of Dāwūd was the majority, and he considered the knowledge of Mālik, although he was inclined to the knowledge of Dāwūd and his arguments. He met al-Muznī and transmitted his Ḥadīth, and he was noble. He died in the year 272.❞
• Source: Tārīkh ‘Ulamā al-Andalus, (1/378).
Al-Ḥumaidī said in the biography of Sa’sa’ah b. Salām:
❝He was Andalusi, Faqīh, one of the companions of al-Awzā’ī, and he was the first to introduce the Awzā'ī school into al-Andalus. He died in the year 192 H.❞
• Source: al-Muqtabas, pg. 237.
Adh-Dhahabī said:
❝Al-Awzā’ī had an independent Madhab, which was followed by the Fuqahā of Shām for a while, and the Fuqahā of al-Andalus for another while; and then it went extinct.❞
• Source: Siyar A’lām an-Nubalā, (7/117).
‘Abd al-Bāset al-Fākhūrī said:
❝The people of Shām and their neighbors and the people of al-Andalus followed on the Awzā’ī Madhab for about two hundred and twenty years.❞
• Source: Tuḥfat al-Anām Mukhtasar Tārīkh al-Islām, pg. 82.
↪️Then it was followed by the Madhab of Imām Mālik (d. 179 H.).
Al-Ḥumaidī said in the biography of Ziyād b. ‘Abd ar-Raḥman b. Ziyād:
❝He was the first to introduce into al-Andalus the jurisprudence of Mālik ibn Anas. And before this it was followed the Awzā’ī Madhab [in al-Andalus], Ziyād died in al-Ándalus the year 193, and it was also said that he died in the year 199. Ibn Ḥazm said: he died in the year 204.❞
• Source: al-Muqtabas, pg. 212.
↪️And followed, by last, by the Madhab of Imām Dāwūd adh-Dhāhirī (d. 270 H.).
Ibn al-Farḍī said in the biography of ‘Abd-Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Qāsim al-Qurtubī:
❝He went to Iraq, he met Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd al-Qiyāsī, and wrote about him all his books and introduced him into al-Andalus. He was followed by the people of his time, the knowledge of Dāwūd was the majority, and he considered the knowledge of Mālik, although he was inclined to the knowledge of Dāwūd and his arguments. He met al-Muznī and transmitted his Ḥadīth, and he was noble. He died in the year 272.❞
• Source: Tārīkh ‘Ulamā al-Andalus, (1/378).
REVISING YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Abdullah bin Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said: "The example of the carrier of the Qur'ān is like no other than the owner of a camel whose (camel's) feet are bound by a cord; if he guards over it, he will keep it under control, but if he releases it, it will run away." Bukhari, Muslim, and Mālik collected this hadith.
Imām ibn 'Abdil-Barr al-Andalsuī said: -
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"In this Hadith is a proof that whosoever does not revise his knowledge will lose it, whoever he may be because their knowledge at that time was the Qur'ān and nothing else, and if the Qur’ān which has been made easy to remember is lost without revision, then what about other types of knowledge?! And the best type of knowledge is that of which its foundation is perfected and its branches are memorized, and that which leads to Allah and that which pleases Him." -
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Hilyatu Tālibil 'ilm (The Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge) Shaykh Bakr Abū Zayd p.65
Abdullah bin Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said: "The example of the carrier of the Qur'ān is like no other than the owner of a camel whose (camel's) feet are bound by a cord; if he guards over it, he will keep it under control, but if he releases it, it will run away." Bukhari, Muslim, and Mālik collected this hadith.
Imām ibn 'Abdil-Barr al-Andalsuī said: -
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"In this Hadith is a proof that whosoever does not revise his knowledge will lose it, whoever he may be because their knowledge at that time was the Qur'ān and nothing else, and if the Qur’ān which has been made easy to remember is lost without revision, then what about other types of knowledge?! And the best type of knowledge is that of which its foundation is perfected and its branches are memorized, and that which leads to Allah and that which pleases Him." -
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Hilyatu Tālibil 'ilm (The Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge) Shaykh Bakr Abū Zayd p.65
Poem from a famous well known poet from al-Andalus, Lisān ad-Dīn ibn al-Khatīb. In this poem it speaking highly of one of the Kings of Al-Andlaus, Garnāda, Abu Hajāj Yusuf ibn Nasir. -
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طابَتْ بوجودِكَ أنْدَلُسٌ
حسُنَتْ بجوارِكَ مُرتَفَقا
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إنْ طافَ بها شيْطانُ عِدىً
يبْغي بسَمائِكَ مُسْتَرَقا
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أو جاسَ خِلالَ منازِلها
قذَفَتْهُ سُعودُكَ فاحْتَرَقا
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طابَتْ بوجودِكَ أنْدَلُسٌ
حسُنَتْ بجوارِكَ مُرتَفَقا
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إنْ طافَ بها شيْطانُ عِدىً
يبْغي بسَمائِكَ مُسْتَرَقا
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أو جاسَ خِلالَ منازِلها
قذَفَتْهُ سُعودُكَ فاحْتَرَقا
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al-Hāfidh ibn Hazm al-Andalusī:
❝If knowledge didn’t have any virtue apart from the fact that ignoramuses would fear you in awe and revere you, and that the scholars would love and honour you, that would’ve been enough for you to be obliged to seek it. What then if we took into consideration all the other virtues of knowledge in this world and the hereafter? -
And if ignorance didn’t have any fault except that the ignorant one harbours severe envy for those who are knowledgable and is likewise jealous of his fellowship of ignoramuses, that would’ve been sufficient for one to be obliged to flee from it. What then if we took into consideration all the other vices and that are linked to ignorance (and their consequences) in this world and the hereafter?❞
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Translation from Abdullah Wafi May Allah grant him firdous amīn.
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❝If knowledge didn’t have any virtue apart from the fact that ignoramuses would fear you in awe and revere you, and that the scholars would love and honour you, that would’ve been enough for you to be obliged to seek it. What then if we took into consideration all the other virtues of knowledge in this world and the hereafter? -
And if ignorance didn’t have any fault except that the ignorant one harbours severe envy for those who are knowledgable and is likewise jealous of his fellowship of ignoramuses, that would’ve been sufficient for one to be obliged to flee from it. What then if we took into consideration all the other vices and that are linked to ignorance (and their consequences) in this world and the hereafter?❞
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Translation from Abdullah Wafi May Allah grant him firdous amīn.
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When the city of Córdoba, Spain, fell to the fell to the Catholic Mushrikin in the 600s A.H., al-Imām Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī was forced to flee to its outskirts for refuge.
He writes in his Tafsīr of the Qur‘ān (10/269):
❝I was running from the enemy and had to change my course. Shortly thereafter, I was followed by two enemy horsemen. I was in an open area with nothing to prevent them from seeing me. I began to recite the beginning of Sūrat Yasīn and some other Qur‘ānic verses. The two horsemen passed me, and then returned and passed me again without seeing me. I heard one of them telling the other: he must have been a Diablo (devil)! Allāh ‘Azza wa Jal blinded them from seeing me, so Al-Ḥamdulilāh for this.❞
He writes in his Tafsīr of the Qur‘ān (10/269):
❝I was running from the enemy and had to change my course. Shortly thereafter, I was followed by two enemy horsemen. I was in an open area with nothing to prevent them from seeing me. I began to recite the beginning of Sūrat Yasīn and some other Qur‘ānic verses. The two horsemen passed me, and then returned and passed me again without seeing me. I heard one of them telling the other: he must have been a Diablo (devil)! Allāh ‘Azza wa Jal blinded them from seeing me, so Al-Ḥamdulilāh for this.❞