The Sunnah
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
also in the atlas: The Sunnah the object
السنة · al-Sunnah · al-sunnah · the Sunnah
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The normative practice of the Prophet, at once the honour claimed for the addressee, the thing whose passing the writer mourns, and the name now attached, he complains, to what was once counted plain error.
For God's sake, spare us the talk of the innovation of Thursday and the eating of grains, and set to work in earnest on the mention of innovations we used to reckon a very head of error, which have now become the pure Sunnah itself and the foundation of the profession of God's oneness — and whoever does not know them is an unbeliever or an ass, and whoever does not anathematise is more of an unbel …
the banner of Islam, the guardian of the precinct of the religion and the reviver of the Sunnah in the eyes of the general run of the common folk among his companions.
O my sorrow for the Sunnah and the passing away of its people!
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The normative practice of the Prophet, paired with the Qur'an as the only guidance that avails once the allusions and expressions of speculative mysticism have fallen away.
those allusions have fallen away, those expressions have come to nothing, and nothing has profited us in this matter save the guidance of the Sunnah and the Qurʼān;