The claim

Fatima al-Fihri founded the oldest standing university through a waqf.

The evidence

  1. The chain of transmitters — passage/muwatta-1-057

    1. person/malik-ibn-anas
    2. person/damra-ibn-said-al-mazini
    3. person/aban-ibn-uthman

    A Muwatta hadith with isnad.

  2. chronicle — work/al-mughrib-fi-hula-al-maghrib

    A note from the Book of the West on Fez and its Qarawiyyin mosque that Fatima al-Fihri founded, faithfully cond'en'sed.

  3. object — place/timbuktu

    Timbuktu as comparison — another African c'en'tre showing the learning network.

What does the evidence prove?