ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi al-Maʿāfirī al-Dabbāgh produced a work on the subject, arranged according to the chapters of the Muwattaʾ.

Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Jadd compiled an Abridgement of al-Tamhīd.

Ḥāzim ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥāzim authored al-Sāfir ʿan Āthār al-Muwattaʾ (The Unveiling of the Muwattaʾ’s Traditions).

Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ishbīlī wrote Tafsīr al-Muwattaʾ (An Exposition of the Muwattaʾ), and Ibn Sharāḥīl produced a similar exegesis. Al-Ṭalamankī likewise began an exegesis, but it remained unfinished.

Yūnus ibn Mughīth composed Sharḥ Musnad al-Muwattaʾ. Al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah also wrote on the same topic, as did his brother Abū ʿAbd Allāh.

The judge Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī authored al-Qabas fī Sharḥ al-Muwattaʾ (A Gleam in the Commentary on the Muwattaʾ).

The ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad ibn Yarbuʿ produced a book on the narrators of the Muwattaʾ.

ʿĀṣim the grammarian prepared a brief commentary that was never completed.

Abū Bakr ibn Mawhib al-Qīrī wrote Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ in several volumes (1).

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Mālik also penned an epistle on predestination (qadar) which he sent to Ibn Wahb; its isnād is sound (2).

He moreover composed a well-known treatise on the stars and the lunar mansions, transmitted by Suḥnūn from Ibn Nāfiʿ the goldsmith, from him.