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Summary
Malik says: likewise, a man who slanders a free man and receives the prescribed punishment, then a man and two women come and testify that the man he slandered was a slave, which makes the punishment lapse from the slanderer after it fell on him. The testimony of women is not admissible in slander. 1
Place in the museum
Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Judgments. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on testimony (shahada).
Connections
- Part of
- Muwatta, Book of Judgements (aqdiya)
- Mentions
- Malik ibn Anas
- Basis for
- The shahada
People and things also explored
Muwatta 2105· Muwatta 2106· Muwatta 2107· Muwatta 2108· Muwatta 2109· Muwatta 2110· Muwatta 2111· Muwatta 2112
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.266
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 2120”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-22-2120/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.