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According to classical Islamic theories, [3] the sunnah is primarily documented by hadith—which are the verbally-transmitted record of the teachings, actions, deeds, sayings, and silent approvals or disapprovals attributed to Muhammad—and alongside the Quran (the book of Islam) are the divine revelation delivered through Muhammad [3] that ...
Law and Society. Vol. The Oxford History of Islam. Oxford University Press (Kindle edition). Opwis, Felicitas (2007). Abbas Amanat; Frank Griffel (eds.). Islamic Law and Legal Change: The Concept of Maslaha in Classical and Contemporary Legal Theory. Vol. Shari'a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context (Kindle ed.). Stanford University Press.
Various sources of Islamic Laws are used by Islamic jurisprudence to elaborate the body of Islamic law. [1] In Sunni Islam, the scriptural sources of traditional jurisprudence are the Holy Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the direct and unaltered word of God, and the Sunnah, consisting of words and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the hadith literature.
Takhayyur is an Islamic legal doctrine that allows adherents of one of four Sunni schools of law to select the ruling of another when the latter is more convenient. The doctrine seeks legitimacy through Quranic verses and prophetic traditions, arguing the Quran and Sunnah both emphasize ease and convenience in religious practice.
The legal theory (usul al-fiqh) of the Hanafi school recognises the following sources of law, listed in order of epistemic authority: the Quran, the practices and sayings of Muhammad as documented in the hadith, consensus of opinion , qiyas, istihsan and local customs . [84]
Usul al-Sunnah by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal; Al-Radd 'ala al-Jahmiyyah wa al-Zanadaqah by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal; Nawadir al-Usul by Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi; Khalq Afal al-Ibad by al-Bukhari; al-Ikhtilāf fī al-Lafz wa al-Radd ‘alā al-Jahmiyyah wal-Mushabbiha by Ibn Qutaybah; Kitab al-Sunnah by Harb Ibn Ismail al-Kirmani; Kitab al-Sunnah by Abdullah Ibn ...
The book has received praise for its objective evaluation of the opinions of the schools of Islamic law. The first eleven volumes of I'la al-Sunan were published in Thana Bhawan from 1922 onwards, with the remaining volumes published in Karachi. Organized according to the chapters of Islamic jurisprudence, the book covers a broad range of ...
Once (authentic) hadith had attained their elevated status among the group inspired by al-Shafi'i who sought to establish Islamic practice on the basis of the Sunnah (Muhammad's deeds and sayings), the focus shifted amongst advocates of this group (who were called the ahl al-sunnah, or the "People of the Sunnah") to delineating between reliable ...