The Status of Sunnah within the Shari'at of Islam

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3). 4). 5). 6). 7). 8). 9). 10). 11). 12). 13).

Abul ʿAliyah Ar Riyahy  Amir bin Sharāhil bin ʿAmr Ash Shaʿbi Al Ḥamdani  ʿUmar bin ʿAbdul ʿAziz  ʿUrwah bin Az Zubair  Al Qasim bin Muḥammad bin Abīū Bakr Aṣ Ṣiddiq  Muḥammad bin ʿĀlī bin Abī Ṭālib  ʿUbaidah bin ʿAmr As Salmany Al Murādy  Āyyub bin Abī Tamimah As Sikhtiyāny  Mainun bin Mihran  Nafi Maula ibnu ʿUmar  Manṣur bin Muʿtamir 

And there are still many more of the Tābiʿūn  who wrote down the aḥādīth of the Messenger of Allāh  directly from the companions  and in order to later pass on to the Tābiʿ al-Tābiʿīn in order that they wrote them down and so on an so on until a single chain of the aḥādīth materializes itself to us today. The Recording of As Sunnah The conveyance of aḥādīth must be carried out very carefully, because it involves matter of religion. This matter was expressly carried out in this manner in order to safeguard the transfer of any such errors. As in the manner explained by Az Zubair, “Those with strong memories had already conveyed aḥādīth without any errors, such as Ibnu ʿAbbās, Ibnu Masʿūd, and Abū Hurairah ”. As Sunnah was copied in an extremely careful manner, both in terms of its memorization and its written form. This matter has occurred directly since the time of the Prophet  and the time of the companions till the end of the first century H, until the sheets that contained the aḥādīth of the Messenger of Allāh  were gathered together at the time of ʿUmar bin ʿAbdul ʿAzīz. He commanded Abū Bakr bin Muḥammad bin ʿAmr bin Hazm to write down and collect the aḥādīth of the Messenger of Allāh , which since that time was the start of the knowledge of aḥādīth narration. Khalīfah ʿUmar bin ʿAbdul ʿAzīz said to Abū Bakr bin Muḥammad, “Pay attention to the aḥādīth of the Messenger of Allāh , then write those aḥādīth down, because indeed I worry 75


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