sunnah

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(Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran

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Five souls are the most dignified in creation: a scholar who is not self-indulgent (moderate), a Sufi jurisprudent, a humble rich person, a thankful poor one, and a noble who follows the Sunnah. Sufyan al-Thawri

Al-Ghazali abstracted these "basic goods" from the legal precepts in the Qur'an and Sunnah: they are religion, life, reason, lineage and property. Source: Internet

Alternative views on sunnah According to the view of some Sufi Muslims who incorporate both the outer and inner reality of Muhammad, the deeper and true sunnah are the noble characteristics and inner state of Muhammad. Source: Internet

Classical Islam often equates the sunnah with the hadith. Source: Internet

Bayazid Bastami is recorded to have been so devoted to the sunnah of Muhammad that he refused to eat a watermelon due to the fact that he could not establish that Muhammad ever ate one. citation The name of Muhammad in Arabic calligraphy. Source: Internet

Besides the Quran, Muhammad's teachings and practices ( sunnah ), found in the Hadith and sira literature, are also upheld by Muslims and used as sources of Islamic law (see Sharia ). Source: Internet

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