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Theory and practice of orthodox Islam
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sunnah
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n. Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths, especially when viewed as a model for Muslims to emulate.
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Sunnah (, , , plural ) is the verbally transmitted record of the teachings, deeds and sayings, silent permissions (or disapprovals) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , as well as various reports about Muhammad's companions. Along with the Quran (the holy ...
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At the moment when this conservative instinct began to assert itself among the spiritual leaders, so much foreign matter had already been incorporated into Islam, that the theory of the sufficiency of Qoran and Sunnah could not have been maintained without the labelling operation which we have alluded to.
Hence a method with a peculiar terminology came in vogue, to which even the boldest imagination could not ascribe any connection with the Sunnah of Mohammed.
Thus, in Islam, a whole system, which could not even pretend to draw its authority from the Sunnah, had come to be accepted.