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Hadith 34455
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az-
Zubayr from Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that A'isha, the wife of the
Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,"When the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, did
itikaf he would bring his head near to me and I would comb it. He
would only go into the house to relieve himself."
Muwatta Malik Book 19, Hadith 1
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the people
of knowledge did not disapprove of people fasting using tooth-sticks
at any hour of the day in Ramadan, whether at the beginning or the
end, nor had he heard any of the people of knowledge disapproving of
or forbidding the practice.
Yahya said that he heard Malik
say, about fasting for six days after breaking the fast at the end of
Ramadan, that he had never seen any of the people of knowledge and
fiqh fasting them. He said, "I have not heard that any of our
predecessors used to do that, and the people of knowledge disapprove
of it and they are afraid that it might become a bida and that common
and ignorant people might join to Ramadan what does not belong to it,
if they were to think that the people of knowledge had given
permission for that to be done and were seen doing it.
Yahya
said that he heard Malik say, "I have never heard any of the people of
knowledge and fiqh and those whom people take as an example forbidding
fasting on the day of jumua. Fasting on it is good, and I have seen
one of the people of knowledge fasting it, and it seemed to me that he
was keen to do so." Muwatta Malik Book 18, Hadith 66
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Amra bint Abd
ar-Rahman that when A'isha was doing itikaf she would only ask after
sick people if she was walking and not if she was standing still.
Malik said, "A person doing itikaf should not carry out
obligations of his, nor leave the mosque for them, nor should he help
anyone. He should only leave the mosque to relieve himself. If he were
able to go out to do things for people, visiting the sick, praying
over the dead and following funeral processions would be the things
with the most claim on his coming out."
Malik said, "A person
doing itikaf is not doing itikaf until he avoids what some one doing
itikaf should avoid, namely, visiting the sick, praying over the dead,
and entering houses, except to relieve himself." Muwatta Malik Book 19, Hadith 2