Muwatta Imam Malik is one of the great books of Islam which includes a number of marfoo’ ahaadeeth and mawqoof reports from the Sahaabah, Taabi’een and those who came after them. It also includes many rulings and fatwas of the author.
The Muwatta Imam Malik is so called because its author made it easy (Muwatta Imam Malik) for the people in the sense that he made it easily accessible to them.
It was narrated that Imam Maalik said: I showed this book of mine to seventy of the fuqaha’ of Madeenah, and all of them agreed with me (waata’ani) on it, so I called it al-Muwatta’.