This is the renowned narration of Imam Malik's foundational hadith collection, the Muwatta, as transmitted by his distinguished student, Imam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, a leading figure of the Hanafi school of law. This version is critically important as it presents Malik's hadiths and legal rulings alongside al-Shaybani's commentary, which often compares them with the perspectives of Imam Abu Hanifa. It serves as a foundational text in comparative Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), masterfully bridging the Hijazi (Maliki) and Iraqi (Hanafi) legal traditions and highlighting their points of convergence and divergence.