Editing Sunnah (section)

===Systemization of hadith===

While the earliest Muslim lawyers "felt no obligation" to provide documentation of hadith when arguing their case, and the sunnah was not recorded and written during Muhammad's lifetime, (according to scholar [[Khaled Abou El Fadl]]), all this changed with the triumph of [[al-Shafi'i]] and a "broad agreement" that hadith should be used to authenticate sunnah (according to M. O. Farooq),<ref name="Farooq" /> over the course of the second century,<ref>[[#DWBRTMIT1996|Brown, ''Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought'', 1996]]: p.12</ref> when legal works began incorporating Prophetic hadith.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Motzki |first1=Harald |title=The Muṣannaf of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Sanʿānī as a Source of Authentic Ahadith of the First Century A.H. |journal=Journal of Near Eastern Studies |volume=50 |date=1991 |page=21 |doi=10.1086/373461 |s2cid=162187154}}</ref><ref>[[#DWBRTMIT1996|Brown, ''Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought'', 1996]]: p.11-12</ref>

Hadith was now systematically collected and documented, but several generations having passed since the time of its occurrence meant that "many of the reports attributed to the Prophet are apocryphal or at least are of dubious historical authenticity" (according to Abou El Fadl). "In fact, one of the most complex disciplines in Islamic jurisprudence is one which attempts to differentiate between authentic and inauthentic traditions."<ref name="abc-abu-al-fadl" />{{efn|1=According to at least one source [['Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As|Abd Allah ibn 'Amr]] was one of the first companions to write down the hadith, after receiving permission from Muhammad to do so.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.kitaba.org/Content.aspx?cid=20| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303014055/http://kitaba.org/Content.aspx?cid=20| url-status=usurped| archive-date=3 March 2011| title=Biography of Abdullah Ibn Amr ibn al-'As}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=An Introduction to the Conservation of Hadith: In the Light of Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih |first=Muhammad |last=Hamidullah |date=2003 |publisher=Islamic Book Trust |isbn=9789839154948}}</ref> Abu Hurayrah memorized the hadith.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/4362/GhaniU.pdf |title='Abu Hurayra' a Narrator of Hadith Revisited: An Examination into the Dichotomous Representations of an Important Figure in Hadith with Special Reference to Classical Islamic Modes of Criticism |last=Ghani |first=Usman |date=July 2011 |website=Open Research Exeter |publisher=[[University of Exeter]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180725224026/https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/4362/GhaniU.pdf |archive-date=25 July 2018 |access-date=25 July 2018}}</ref>}}