ʿIyāḍ said: In preparing this book of ours on the reports regarding Mālik, we have combed through the writings of the hadith scholars, such as the works of al-Bukhārī, al-Zubayr, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Wakiʿ the judge, al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, al-Ṣūlī, Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus al-Ṣadafī, Abū ʿUmar al-Kindī, Abū ʿUmar al-Ṣadafī al-Qurṭubī, Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥārith al-Qarawī, Abū al-ʿArab al-Tamīmī, Abū Isḥāq ibn al-Rafīq the scribe, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Baṣrī among the Qarawiyyīn, and the History of Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAbd Allah al-Mālikī, likewise among the Qarawiyyīn.
We have also relied on the Andalusian chronicles: the book of Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Iḥtifāl by Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAfīf, al-Intikhāb by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Mufarrij, the History of Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Faradī, the chronicles of Abū Marwān, Ibn Ḥayyān, and al-Rāzī, and the book of Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muẓāhir ⦗1⦘.
In addition, I consulted the portions of al-Khaṭīb’s History that reached me concerning the Baghdadis, the book of Abū Naṣr al-Amīr ⦗2⦘, the Ṭabaqāt of Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr’s work on the three Imams and their transmitters ⦗3⦘.
The judge said: We have thoroughly verified everyone who narrated the Muwaṭṭaʾ from Mālik and all those explicitly mentioned by the scholars of tradition and the critical experts: Ibn Wahb, Ibn al-Qāsim, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, al-Ghāz ibn Qays, Ziyād Shabṭūn, al-Shāfiʿī, al-Qaʿnabī, Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, ʿAbd Allah ibn