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  • They seek the true meaning of the Quran and other religious texts like the hadith (customs and traditions) and sunna (sayings based on the life of the Prophet PBUH).

    Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Beyond the Brutal Weather: A Muslim Spring? Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011

  • They seek the true meaning of the Quran and other religious texts like the hadith (customs and traditions) and sunna (sayings based on the life of the Prophet PBUH).

    Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Beyond the Brutal Weather: A Muslim Spring? Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011

  • They seek the true meaning of the Quran and other religious texts like the hadith (customs and traditions) and sunna (sayings based on the life of the Prophet PBUH).

    Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Beyond the Brutal Weather: A Muslim Spring? Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011

  • At the heart of issue, Fr. Samir argues, is how "the very sources of the Muslim faith (the Qur'an and the sunna)" are understood, interpreted, and lived.

    Interreligious Dialogue 2009

  • At the heart of issue, Fr. Samir argues, is how "the very sources of the Muslim faith (the Qur'an and the sunna)" are understood, interpreted, and lived.

    Islam 2009

  • They seek the true meaning of the Quran and other religious texts like the hadith (customs and traditions) and sunna (sayings based on the life of the Prophet PBUH).

    Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Beyond the Brutal Weather: A Muslim Spring? Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011

  • These ritual infractions precipitated an outcry, compelling one congregant to speak up: "Marwan, you've gone against sunna a normative practice demonstrated by the Prophet!"

    Fulfilling Our Duty as Muslim-Americans Qanta A. Ahmed 2011

  • I pointed out that even some moderate Muslims favored Al Qaeda's Salafist ideology that rejects all Muslim jurisprudence, much of which was issued from centuries of Al Azhar scholars, favoring instead the pure Quran and sunna, the sayings of Prophet Mohamed.

    Annelle Sheline: Obama's Call for Cooperation with Islam Begins to Elicit Responses 2009

  • When asked why he never combed his bushy beard, he answered “I fear any of it might fall off,” which contradicted sunna prophetic teachings in his opinion.

    Tuesday, January 27, 2009 As'ad 2009

  • The partisans of Abu Bakr would come to be known as "Sunni" Muslims — those who follow the "sunna," the code of pious practice based on the Prophet's example.

    Fateful Schism 2009

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