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Malik bin Anas, whose full name is Mālik bin ʾAnas bin Mālik bin ʾAbī ʿĀmir bin ʿAmr bin al-Ḥārith bin Ghaymān bin Khuthayn bin ʿAmr bin al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥīy, reverently known as Imam Mālik by Maliki Sunnis, was an Arab Muslim jurist, theologian, and hadith traditionist.