Editing Sunnah (section)

=== Sunnah and hadith ===

In the context of biographical records of Muhammad, sunnah often stands synonymous with [[hadith]] since most of the personality traits of Muhammad are known from descriptions of him, his sayings and his actions from hadith.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nasr |first=S. |title=Islamic Studies |location=Beirut |publisher=Seyyed Hossein Nasr |date=1967}}</ref> According to Seyyed Nasr, the hadith contains the words of Muhammad, while the sunnah contains his words and actions along with pre-Islamic practices of which he approved.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nasr |first1=Seyyed Hossein |title=Islamic Spirituality: Foundations |date=1991 |publisher=Routledge |page=97 |isbn=9781134538959 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Ncz9AQAAQBAJ&q=difference+between+hadith+and+sunnah+seyyed+nasr&pg=PA97 |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> In the context of sharia, [[Malik ibn Anas]] and the [[Hanafi]] scholars are assumed to have differentiated between the two: for example Malik is said to have rejected some traditions that reached him because, according to him, they were against the "established practice of the people of [[Medina]]".{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
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