Malik ibn Anas
Scholar and jurist
Malik ibn Anas was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, and theologian. Born in Medina, Malik rose to become the premier scholar of hadith in his day, seeking to apply to "the whole legal life" to create a systematic method of Islamic... Wikipedia
Born: 711 AD, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Died: 795 AD (age 84 years), Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Influenced by: Abū Ḥanīfah, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri, and more
Full name: Mālik bin Anas bin Mālik bin Abī ʿĀmir bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith bin Ghaymān bin Khuthayn bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥī al-Ḥumyarī al-Madanī
Parents: Aaliyah bint Shurayk al-Azdiyya and Anas ibn Malik
Place of burial: Al Baqi Cemetery, Madinah, Saudi Arabia