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[quote]R dear
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ps that the practices of the prophet sws have reached us through the practices of the generations in day to day life. and this does not depend on hadith. [/blue]

ii. Sunnah does not depend on Hadith

Again, since the Sunan are practices relating to essential and inevitable
occasions of our lives, they are received, learnt and acquired from the living traditions in the society. Every Muslim born in this Ummah observes these
practices in a concrete and real form and learns them from his elders, teachers and Muslims at large.

We do not need to learn Sunnah from books. Sunnah is, as we have stated earlier, a real, living tradition which is ubiquitous in the Muslim Ummah, It is not hidden anywhere and it is extremely easy to understand because
it does not consist of concepts and opinions. If there were no books on H~adi#th, the Sunnah would have still been there with the same authenticity and same clarity.

And now when we have the Sunnah and the Hadith literature side by side with us,
we do not need the confirmation of Sunnah from the books on H~adith. Instead we would confirm the authenticity of Hadith from comparison with the Sunnah.

If we study how a common Muslim learns to offer daily prayers, we would
immediately know that when he is born, or converted, he finds that daily prayers are being offered in the community by a large number of people. Even those who do not pray do know the formal method to pray. A young Muslim or a new entrant to this faith learns how to offer his daily prayers from the society – from his elders
and teachers. He does not learn about the method and procedure of this mandatory worship from books on history or Hadith.

This is perfectly in line with the wishes of God and his Prophet (sws).

The Holy Prophet (sws) did not make any arrangements for recording his sayings. He only ensured that two things should be preserved and communicated:

• The body of words and sounds contained in the Holy Qur’an
• The body of practices constituting the Sunnah

And it is within these two that the entire Islam is preserved. Islam like most of other religions consists of two components – beliefs and practices. The beliefs have been succinctly stated in the Holy Qur’an while the practices are embodied in the Sunnah.

According to the Muslim ideology, if we want to find out the Sunan, we should
look for them in the traditions and practices of Muslim Ummah and not in the
books of history.[/quote]

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