The Shaykh gives some examples of narrations in al-Muwatta with commentary on them.

The Shaykh : I will mention from these hadiths: This is one of the hadiths that Malik mentioned in al-Muwatta as a report without a chain of narration, and its meaning is clear, and because of the clarity of its meaning, it became clear that it is not authentic, in addition to the fact that it was not found connected with a chain of narration outside of al-Muwatta. He says: , but this is contrary to the Qur'an and contrary to the authentic hadith, , and a hadith in "Sahih al-Bukhari" confirms the meaning of this verse, directly refuting anyone who might try to interpret the verse in a way that fits this report in al-Muwatta. That hadith says: , and even clearer than this is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forgot in many prayers; once he prayed the 'Asr prayer with two rak'ahs, once he prayed the Zuhr prayer with five rak'ahs, once he prayed the Maghrib prayer with two rak'ahs, and so on. But the important thing is that with this forgetting in some of these incidents, there is an explicit statement of what we are discussing now: that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forgets by the nature of being human, as He (Glorified and Exalted is He) said: , and humans forget. And this was explicitly confirmed: when he prayed the Zuhr prayer with them for five rak'ahs, when he finished the prayer they said: O Messenger of Allah, was there an addition in the prayer? He said: لا No.. They said: You prayed five. So he prostrated the prostration for forgetfulness and finished the prayer, then he said to them: إنما أنا بشر مثلكم ؛ أنسى كما تنسون ، فإذا نسيت فذكِّروني but I am a human being like you and liable to forget like you. So if I forget remind meSahih al-Bukhari 401, what explicit statement is there after this?! إنما أنا بشر مثلكم ؛ أنسى كما تنسون ، فإذا نسيت فذكروني but I am a human being like you and liable to forget like you. So if I forget remind meSahih al-Bukhari 401, likewise, what confirms this meaning in another way: by necessity, when he prayed the 'Asr prayer with two rak'ahs, then he left his place of prayer and moved to a side of the mosque, and lay down like this to rest, and placed one leg over the other, and among the people were Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and among them was a man known as Dhu al-Yadayn (his nickname: Dhu al-Yadayn). He said: O Messenger of Allah _he was the one who dared to speak to the Prophet_ قال : يا رسول الله ! أقصُرت الصلاة أم نسيت ؟ فقال : كل ذلك لم يكن He said: O Messenger of Allah! Did the prayer become short or did you forget? He said: None of that happenedSahih Ibn Hibban 10:1003 like what you see, is it the Prophet's forgetting or not?! It is forgetting, he said: O Messenger of Allah! Did the prayer become short or did you forget? He said: كلُّ ذلك لم يكن No such thing happenedSunan an-Nasa'i 1141. He said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah, it did happen? Meaning one of the two things: either forgetting or a new legislation. So he turned to the people, and among them were Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and he said: أصدق ذو اليدين ؟ Is Dhu al-Yadayn telling the truth?. They said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah. So he left the place and returned to the place of prayer, and he did not say the mihrab, the mihrab in the mosque is a religious innovation as the great jurists of the early and later generations say, and al-Hafiz al-Suyuti has a nice treatise he called: "Tanzih al-Arib fi Bid'at al-Maharib" (Alerting the Wise to the Innovation of Mihrabs), with this nice rhyming, so there was no mihrab in the mosque in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), therefore I say: he returned to his place of prayer, so he prayed the two missing forgotten rak'ahs, then he prostrated the prostration for forgetfulness.