concept

Sunnah

Beliefs & concepts

Prophetic normative practice as a named Islamic source and path. Not ḥadīth as report-text alone, and not bidʿa as blameworthy novelty.

Also known as Sunna

Islam

  • Sunnah appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an speaks of sunnat Allāh — God’s way that does not change — in dealing with communities. Islamic God’s-way speech in that revelation, not the later prophetic Sunnah/hadith corpus invent and not fiqh as jurisprudence name.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).