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  2. Maliki school - Wikipedia

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    Like all Sunni schools of Sharia, the Maliki school uses the Qur'an as primary source, followed by the sayings, customs/traditions and practices of Muhammad, transmitted as hadiths. In the Mālikī school, said tradition includes not only what was recorded in hadiths, but also the legal rulings of the four rightly guided caliphs – especially ...

  3. The four Sunni Imams - Wikipedia

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    The four Sunni Imams founded the four madhhab (schools of thought) recognized in Sunni Islam. While they agree on the foundational principles of fiqh according to the Sunni narrative, their interpretations of certain legal and practical matters differ, which led to the development of the four distinct madhhab.

  4. Malikization of the Maghreb - Wikipedia

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    The Great Mosque of Kairouan or the Mosque of Uqba had the reputation, since the 9th century, of being one of the most important centers of the Maliki school. [1]The Malikization of the Maghreb was the process of encouraging the adoption of the Maliki school (founded by Malik ibn Anas) of Sunni Islam in the Maghreb, especially in the 11th and 12th centuries, to the detriment of Shia and ...

  5. Sunni Islam - Wikipedia

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    Sunni Islam [a] (/ ˈ s uː n i /; Arabic: أهل السنة, romanized: Ahl as-Sunnah, lit. 'The People of the Sunnah') is the largest denomination of Islam , followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims , and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

  6. Malik ibn Anas - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps Malik's most famous accomplishment in the annals of Islamic history is, however, his compilation of al-Muwatta', one of the oldest and most revered Sunni hadith collections and one of "the earliest surviving Muslim law-book[s]," [2] in which Malik attempted to "give a survey of law and justice; ritual and practice of religion according ...

  7. List of Sunni books - Wikipedia

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    History of Damascus by Ibn `Asakir (d.1176 AD) Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (d.1203 AD) Chach Nama by Kazi Ismail al-Thakafi & Ali bin Ḥamid Kufi (written in 1226 AD) Mu'jam Al-Buldan by Yaqut al-Hamawi (d.1229 AD) The Complete History by Ali ibn al-Athir (d.1233 AD) Usd al-ghabah fi marifat al-Saḥabah by Ali ibn al ...

  8. Ahl al-Hadith - Wikipedia

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    Ahl al-Hadith (Arabic: أَهْل الحَدِيث, romanized: Ahl al-Ḥadīth, lit. 'people of hadith') is an Islamic school of Sunni Islam that emerged during the 2nd and 3rd Islamic centuries of the Islamic era (late 8th and 9th century CE) as a movement of hadith scholars who considered the Quran and authentic hadith to be the only authority in matters of law and creed. [1]

  9. Zaydism - Wikipedia

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    In the 7th century some early Muslims expected Ali to become a first caliph, successor to Muhammad.After ascension of Abu Bakr, supporters of Ali (and future Shia) continued to believe only people from Muhammad's family to qualify as rulers and selected an imam, from each generation (the proto-Sunni, in contrast, recognized Abu Bakr as a legitimate first caliph). [5]