Editing Hadith (section)

=== Relationship with ''sunnah'' ===
The word {{transliteration|ar|[[sunnah]]}} is also used in reference to a normative custom of Muhammad or the early [[Ummah|Muslim community]].<ref name="H-EoI"/> [[Joseph Schacht]] describes hadith as providing "the documentation" of the {{transliteration|ar|sunnah}}.<ref name=Schacht-OoMJ-1959-3>{{cite book |title=The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence |last1=Schacht |first1=Joseph |publisher=Oxford University Press |orig-year= 1950 |year= 1959 |page=3 }}</ref> Some sources ([[Khaled Abou El Fadl]]) limit hadith to verbal reports, with the deeds of Muhammad and reports about [[Sahabah|his companions]] being part of the {{transliteration|ar|sunnah}}, but not hadith.<ref name=ABC-abu-al-fadl>{{cite journal|last1=Abou El Fadl|first1=Khaled|title=What is Shari'a?|journal=ABC Religion and Ethics|date=22 March 2011 |url=http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/03/22/3170810.htm|access-date=20 June 2015}}</ref>

Another source (Joseph A. Islam) distinguishes between the two saying: 
<blockquote>Whereas the 'Hadith' is an oral communication that is allegedly derived from the Prophet or his teachings, the 'Sunna' (quite literally: mode of life, behaviour or example) signifies the prevailing customs of a particular community or people.  ... A 'Sunna' is a practice which has been passed on by a community from generation to generation en masse, whereas the hadith are reports collected by later compilers often centuries removed from the source. ... A practice which is contained within the Hadith may well be regarded as Sunna, but it is not necessary that a Sunna would have a supporting hadith sanctioning it.<ref name="JAI">{{cite web|last1=Islam|first1=Joseph A.|title=THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HADITH AND SUNNA |url=http://quransmessage.com/articles/hadith%20and%20sunna%20FM3.htm|website=The Quran and Its Message|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref></blockquote>

Sunnah originally meant a tradition ([[urf]]) that did not mean good or bad.<ref name="Juynboll"/><ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/><ref name="OISO"/><ref name="Oxford University Press"/> Later, "good traditions" began to be referred to as sunnah in Islamic community and the concept of "Muhammad's sunnah" was established.<ref name="Juynboll" /> Muhammad's sunnah gave way to the "hadiths of Muhammad" which were [[Oral tradition|transmitted orally]],{{sfn|Brown|2009|p=3}} then recorded in corpuses and [[Hadith studies|systematized and purified within following centuries]]. Hadiths were later placed in a respected place among the [[sources of sharia]] in many [[Madhab|Islamic sects]], and thus replaced the sunnah in the establishment of [[sharia]].