the Muwattaʾ) such as the recension preserved by the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd al-Azdī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Ḥaḍramī, and Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Harawī.
Al-Dāraquṭnī composed a book entitled Ikhtilāfāt al-Muwattaʾ (The Variants within the Muwattaʾ).
Daʿlaj al-Sijzī (1) authored Gharāʾib Ḥadīth Mālik (The Uncommon Reports of Mālik), and works of the same type were produced by Ibn al-Jārūd and Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh.
Al-Dāraquṭnī also compiled the narrations in which Mālik was opposed, and Abū Bakr al-Bazzār wrote a monograph on the same subject.
The ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar gathered the material that Mālik transmitted outside his Muwattaʾ.
Abū ʿUmar ibn Naṣr al-Ṭulayṭulī compiled a Musnad of the Muwattaʾ; the same was done by Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Farḍakh al-Ikhmīmī, the muḥaddith Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Usāmah ibn ʿAlī al-Miṣrī, and the ḥāfiẓ Mūsā ibn Hārūn al-Ḥammāl. The judge Abū Bakr ibn al-Salīm produced an independent collection of material not found in the Muwattaʾ.
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Ṭālib al-ʿĀbir wrote a work entitled Muwattaʾ al-Muwattaʾ.
Both al-Dāraquṭnī and al-Khaṭīb prepared Aṭrāf al-Muwattaʾ (an index of the Muwattaʾ’s isnāds).
A commentary on the Muwattaʾ was written by the jurist Yaḥyā ibn Muzayn, who also compiled a study of its narrators.
Commentaries were likewise produced by Ibn Wahb, ʿĪsā ibn Dīnār, ʿAbd Allah ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ṣāʾigh, Ḥarmalah, Ibn Ḥabīb, and Muḥammad ibn Suḥnūn.
Muslim authored a work on Mālik’s teachers.
Al-Barqī composed Rijāl al-Muwattaʾ (The Narrators of the Muwattaʾ), and similar compilations were written by al-Ṭalamankī (2) and Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥadhāʾ.