that he lived ninety-two years.

Abū Muḥammad al-Darrāb remarked, “This is a mistake; the correct figure is eighty-six (1).”

There is also a disagreement about how long his mother bore him. Maʿn, al-Ṣāʾigh, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk said she carried him for three years, and the same was related by the father of al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār. Al-Wāqidī, however, held that she carried him for two years (2).

I say: He was unanimously buried in al-Baqīʿ, and his grave is well known and visited—may Allah have mercy on him.

It is reported that on the very night he died, a man from the Anṣār heard someone reciting:

Islam’s strong pillar has been shaken this morn
When the guide was laid to rest in the grave’s recess;
The imam of guidance, ever the guardian of knowledge—
Upon him be Allah’s peace until the end of time.

He continued, “I awoke, and lo, the lament had already been raised for Mālik.”

Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ went on to record several favorable dreams concerning the Imām (3), yet the rest of his book is without chains of transmission, and some of its contents are objectionable.

Ibn al-Qāsim said, “Mālik died leaving one hundred turbans, aside from other garments.” Ibn Abī Uways stated, “The carpets, couches, cushions, and other furnishings in my uncle Mālik’s house were sold for a sum exceeding five hundred dinars.” Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Khalaf said, “Mālik left behind five hundred pairs of…"