Muwatta Imam Malik

Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (, 'the well-trodden path') or Muwatta Imam Malik () of Imam Malik (711–795) written in the 8th-century, is one of the earliest collections of hadith texts comprising the subjects of Islamic law, compiled by the Imam, Malik ibn Anas. It is also the earliest extant example of a musannaf, referring to a genre of hadith compilation which arranges hadith topically.