Three divisions: Nafi' - and they say "No" We know only the Book of God and the Muwatta of Malik. If they prevailed over a Hanafi or a Shafi'i, they would reject them. . . and the rest of the Maghreb The scholars of the Maghreb, Abu Hanifa and Malik, may God have mercy on them. And sometimes adherence to the Maliki school became so strict that it led to adopting a single narration from its narrations and being content with it and nothing else. This is what Ahmad Baba mentioned, quoting Abu Musa, son of the Imam, that the people of Andalusia in 1347 AH (749 AH) in Cordoba stipulated that "the judge shall not depart from the opinion of Ibn al-Qasim, if he finds it to be cautious and a desire for the correctness of the path leading to the school of Malik." It seems that adherence to the Maliki school reached a degree that in some times it turned into a kind of fanaticism. This is what Ibn Hazm depicted with some exaggeration in his saying: "The people of Andalusia have reached such a level of imitation of Malik that they present the words of God Almighty and the words of His Messenger to the doctrines of their Imam." If they agree, they accept them; otherwise, they reject them and adopt the saying of their companion, even though he is not infallible. We do not know of any sin greater than this, after disbelief in God Almighty. As for the sects and theological doctrines, the region of the Maghreb and Andalusia received some of their opinions. And some individuals carrying them arrived there. However, we do not find any of them that managed to become established there and spread its roots to attract a wide group of people. The most prominent of these was the formation of a state in Ifriqiya, the Ubaydid state. Perhaps its proximity facilitated the establishment of the Ismaili Shi'a in Sus in the third century, with its dissemination of Shi'a thought and its preparation throughout the entire region of the Maghreb. The final demise of this state from Ifriqiya in the same century (131) (132 AH) He and his brother Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Aziz, the Malikite scholar, went to Tunis and returned to Tlemcen, where they engaged in teaching and compilation. See: Abu al-Qasim Jum'al al-Hafnawi, Ta'rif / 1 al-Khalaf: (201) (1906) Algeria Ahmad Baba, Nayl al-Ibtihaj: (133) Quoted by Ahmad Baba, Nayl (134) 191 al-Ibtihaj: 008