The Muwäa' contains a record of the exemplification by the last Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, of the message of the Qur'n, the practice ('amal) of the people of Madnah of the first generations, a transmission of the ethos that permeated the city, and Imm Mlik's painstaking clarification of the Sunna, the adths, the practice and legal judgements.
Ash-Shfi' said, "After the Book of Allah, there is no book on the face of the earth sounder than the book of Mlik."
'Al' ad-Dn Maghläy al-anaf said, "The first person to compile the ä was Mlik."
Ibn ajar said, "The book of Mlik is sound by all the criteria that are demanded as proofs in the mursal, munqäi' and other types of transmission."
As-Suy followed Ibn ajar's judgement and said, "It is absolutely correct to say that the Muwäa' is sound (ä) without exception."
Al-Bukhr and Muslim transmitted most of its adths and included them in their ä collections. The authors of the rest of the six books, the Imm of the adth scholars, Amad ibn anbal, and others did the same.