Muḥammadan doctors, however, are not agreed on the subject, for Abū Ḥanīfah says, “If a person break a lute or tabor, or pipe, or cymbal belonging to a Muslim, he is responsible, because the sale of such articles is lawful.” But his two disciples, Imāms Muḥammad and Abū Yūsuf, do not agree with him. (Hidāyah, vol. iii. p. 558.)
MUS̤LAH (مثلة). The mutilation of the body, which is forbidden by Muslim law, except in the case of retaliation. (Mishkāt, book xii. ch. ii.)
MUSLIM (مسلم), from Islām. One who has received Islām. A Muḥammadan. [[MUHAMMADANISM], [ISLAM].]
MUSLIM (مسلم). Abū ʾl-Ḥusain Muslim, son of al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushairī, the compiler of the collection of the Traditions known as the Ṣaḥīḥu Muslim, was born at Naishapūr, A.H. 204, and died A.H. 261. His book of traditions ranks amongst the Sunnīs as but second in authority to the Ṣaḥīḥu ʾ-Buk͟hārī. The two works being styled the Ṣaḥīḥān, or the “two authentics.” It is said to contain 3,000 authentic traditions. [[TRADITIONS].]
MUSTAḤĀẒAH (مستحاضة). A woman who has an issue of blood (istiḥāẓah), independent of the menses or of the cleansings after parturition. A mustaḥāẓah is not considered junub, or unclean, but may say her prayers and perform the other religious offices. Compare [Leviticus xv. 3].
MUṢT̤ALIQ (مصطلق). Banū Muṣt̤aliq. An Arabian tribe in the time of Muḥammad. He attacked the Banū Muṣt̤aliq in A.H. 5, and took many of them prisoners. (Muir’s Life of Mahomet, vol. iii. p. 237). They embraced Islām at an early period.
MUSTAʾMIN (مستامن). Lit. “One who seeks security.” One who, being a foreigner, and not a Muslim, enters Muḥammadan territory, and claims safe conduct and immunity from hostilities.
AL-MUTAʿĀLĪ (المتعالى). “The Exalted.” One of the ninety-nine names or attributes of God. It occurs in the Qurʾān, [Sūrah xiii. 10]: “He knows the unseen, and the visible,—the Great, the Lofty One.”
MUʿTADDAH (معتدة). A woman in her ʿiddah, or period of probation, after the death of her husband, or after her divorce.
MUTʿAH (متعة). Lit. “Usufruct, enjoyment.” A marriage contracted for a limited period, for a certain sum of money. Such marriages are still legal amongst the Shīʿahs, and exist in Persia (Malcolm’s Persia, vol. ii. p. 591) to the present day, but they are said to be unlawful by the Sunnīs. They were permitted by the Arabian Prophet at Aut̤ās, and are undoubtedly the greatest stain upon his moral legislation; but the Sunnīs say that he afterwards prohibited a mutʿah marriage at K͟haibar. (Vide Mishkāt, book xiii. ch. iv. pt. 2.)