Hakikat Kitabevi Publications No: 10 answer to an enemy of islam

“When people are in urgent need [of someone],
they will find no one surpassing the scholar in Medina,” signified
Imâm Mâlik. Imâm Malik said that he dreamt of Rasûlullah (sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) every night. Mus’âb said that he had
heard his father say, “Mâlik and I were in Masjid an-Nabawî.
Someone approached and asked which of us was Abû ’Abdullah
Mâlik. We showed him who he was. He came near him, threw his
arms round his neck and kissed him on the forehead. He said, ‘I
dreamt of Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) sitting here.
Call Mâlik, he said. You came, trembling. Relax yourself, O Abâ
’Abdullah! Sit down and open up your chest, he commanded.
Your chest opened and radiated fragrant scents everywhere.’
Imâm Mâlik wept and said that the dream was to be interpreted
as knowledge.”
3) Al-Imâm ash-Shâfi’î’s (rahmatullâhi ’alaih) name was
Muhammad ibn Idris ibn ’Abbâs ibn ’Uthmân ibn Shâfi’. His
descent traced back to Hâshim ibn ’Abd al-Muttalib as his eighth
father, whose uncle, Hâshim, was among Rasûlulah’s ancestors.
His fifth father, Sâyib, was in the enemy army in the Battle of
Badr, but later he and his son Shâfî’ became Sahâbîs. The imâm,
therefore, was called “ash-Shâfi’î.” His mother was a Sharîfa, a
descendant of Hadrat Hasan (radiy-Allâhu ’anh). He was born in
Gazza in 150 A.H. [767] and died in Egypt in 204 [820]. When he
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was two years old, he was taken to al-Makkat al-mukarrama,
where he memorized the Qur’ân al-kerîm in childhood and Imâm
Mâlik’s hadîth book 
Muwatta’ at the age of ten. He began to issue
fatwâs at the age of fifteen. He went to al-Madînat al-Munawwara
in the same year and acquired knowledge and faid from Imâm
Mâlik. He came to Baghdad in 185. Two years later he went to
Mecca for hajj. He returned to Baghdad in 198 and settled in
Egypt in 199. Long after his death, there were those who wanted
to take his body to Baghdad, and when his grave was dug, it
emanated a musky scent, intoxicating the people there. They gave
up digging. With respect to knowledge, worshipping, zuhd,
ma’rifa, intelligence, memory and pedigree, he was the most
superior of the imâms of his time, and superior also to most of
those who came before him. His madhhab spread far and wide. All
of the inhabitants of al-Haramain and al-Ard al-Muqaddas
[Palestine] became Shâfi’î. The hadîth ash-sherîf,