Malik bin Ashtar (r)

Question:

Assalamu alaykum,

I’m from Yemen from the Yafi tribe and I’m from Bani Malik named after Malik bin Ashtar al Nakhai. I could not find any Sunni sources regarding this man and the Shia claim he is one of them. Just wanted to know the view of Ahl as Sunnah.

Answer:

Alaykum Salam,

He saw the Prophet (s) in his childhood and died at age 38. He has an entry in Ibn Hajar’s Isaba under the words:

مالك بن الحارث بن عبد يغوث بن مسلمة بن ربيعة بن الحارث بن جذيمة بن مالك بن النخع النخعي المعروف بالاشتر

Hajj Gibril Haddad

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