January 2006
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This study aims to unveil the reliability of an academic scientific case that caused a well-known dispute in the old centuries, and still appears in modern times without a final clear-cut conclusion, even though it is indeed a vital and critical issue that should be explored. It is the stand point of Imam Malik towards Al-Hadith Al-Mursal (the Prophetic Sayings that have been narrated by the Followers of the Companions without revealing their chain of narrators, i.e. their connecting thread to the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him). Taking into consideration the academic research methodology, we highlighted first of all the definition of this kind of Prophetic Sayings from a linguistic and terminological point of view; then we quoted the most well known comments for renowned scholars with their evidences on their opinions in this regard, and finally we tried our best to conclude the correct opinion that should be attributed to Imam Malik