Malik Dinar
Malik Dinar (Arabic: مالك دينار, romanized: Mālik b. Dīnār, Malayalam: മാലിക് ദീനാര്) (died 748 CE)[2] was a Muslim scholar and traveller.[5] Malik, a preacher and moralist of Basra, made a living as a teacher and translator of the Qur'an,[6] and seems to have been interested in the question of the various readings of the scripture.[7] During his life, Malik had the occasion to follow more or less regularly the teaching of Basran traditionists and mystics as famous as Anas b. Mālik, Ibn Sīrīn, Hasan of Basra and Rabīʿa al-ʿAdawiyya.[8] He was considered to have led an ascetic life himself, and tradition attributed to him several thaumaturgic gifts and miracles, including the ability to walk on water."[11] Later scholars ranging from Abū Nuʿaym[12] to Ibn al-Jawzī[13] reproduce "whole hosts" of proverbial sayings from him,[14] which clearly reflect the extent to which Malik continued to influence Sunni thinkers of all types.