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The Muwaá¹á¹a' contains a record of the exemplification by the last Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, of the message of the Qur'Än, the practice ('amal) of the people of MadÄ«nah of the first generations, a transmission of the ethos that permeated the city, and ImÄm MÄlik's painstaking clarification of the Sunna, the ḥadÄ«ths, the practice and legal judgements. Ash-ShÄfi'Ä« said, "After the Book of Allah, there is no book on the face of the earth sounder than the book of MÄlik." 'AlÄ' ad-DÄ«n Maghlaá¹Äy al-ḤanafÄ« said, "The first person to compile the á¹£aḥīḥ was MÄlik." Ibn Ḥajar said, "The book of MÄlik is sound by all the criteria that are demanded as proofs in the mursal, munqaá¹i' and other types of transmission." As-SuyÅ«á¹Ä« followed Ibn Ḥajar's judgement and said, "It is absolutely correct to say that the Muwaá¹á¹a' is sound (á¹£aḥīḥ) without exception." Al-BukhÄrÄ« and Muslim transmitted most of its ḥadÄ«ths and included them in their á¹¢aḥīḥ collections. The authors of the rest of the six books, the ImÄm of the ḥadÄ«th scholars, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and others did the same.
