According to Sunni tradition the following verses of the Qur ' an were revealed due to this:

According to Sunni beliefs, Muhammad gave no specific directions as to the choosing of his successor when he died.

According to Edward G. Browne, the three most prominent mystical Persian poets Rumi, Sana ' i and Attar were all Sunni Muslims and their poetry abounds with praise for the first two caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattāb.

According to Ellenblum's interpretation the inhabitants of the Kingdom ( Latin Christians living alongside native Greek and Syrian Christians, Shia and Sunni Arabs, Sufis, Bedouin, Turks, Druze, Jews, and Samaritans ) all had major differences between each other as well as with the crusaders.

According to a 2009 U. S. State Department communication by Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, ( disclosed as part of the Wikileaks U. S. ' cables leaks ' controversy in 2010 ) " donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide ".

According to a Sunni hadith, Sahih Muslim:

According to historian Juan Cole it was under Sunni rule that Twelver Shiaism became established in Bahrain, as Shia Bahrainis gradually moved away from the radical, egalitarian Ismaili Qarmatian sect to the more quietist Twelver or Imami branch, a process which the Sunni rulers encouraged.

According to The Times, about 900 of Britain's nearly 1, 500 masjids are run by Deobandi affiliated scholars, and 19 of the country's 25 Islamic seminaries follow Sunni Deobandi teachings, producing 80 % of all domestically trained Ulema.

According to the British television Channel 4, from 2005 through early 2006, SIIC's Badr Organization members working as commandos in the Ministry of the Interior ( which Badr controls ) " have been implicated in rounding up and killing thousands of ordinary Sunni civilians.

According to Edward G. Browne, Attar as well as Rumi and Sana ' i were all Sunni Muslims and their poetry abound with praise for the first two caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattāb.

According to scholar Vali Nasr, political tendencies of Sunni and Shia Islamic revival differ, with Sunni fundamentalism " in Pakistan and much of the Arab world " being " far from politically revolutionary ", while Shia fundamentalism is strongly influenced by Ruhollah Khomeini and his talk of the oppression of the poor and class war.

According to a US panel, attacks on Bahá ' ís in Iran have increased since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president as well as Sunni Muslims.

According to CBS, in 2004 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99. 9 % Sunni Muslim Arab citizens of Israel ( see also: Population groups in Israel ).

According to Shi ' a scholar Muhammad Husain Javari Sabinal, Shi ' ism would not have spread at all if not for taqiyya, referring to instances where Shi ' a have been ruthlessly persecuted by the Sunni political elite during the Umayyad and Abbasid empires.

According to Sunni tradition, ibn Hanbal was among the scholars to resist the Caliph's interference and the Mu ' tazila doctrine of a created Qur ' an — although some Orientalist sources raise a question on whether or not he remained steadfast

According to Shia and Sunni sources, Muhammad, upon the birth of his grandson in 3 AH, was ordered by the archangel Gabriel to name him Hasan-a name not used in the pre-Islamic period.

According to Sunni scholars Hasan stipulated that Muawiyah should follow the Qur ' an and the Sunnah, allow a parliament ( shura ) as regards the caliphate after his death and refrain from any acts of revenge.

According to Sunni scholars, Muslims of the past should be considered companions if they had any contact with Muhammad, and they were not liars or opposed to him and his teachings.

According to Sunni Muslims the Qur ' anic mandate for wudu comes in the sixth ayat of sura 5.

According to the classical chief sources of legislation and jurisprudence in orthodox Sunni Islam, primarily the Quran and Hadith texts ( and notably the practice of the Salafi school of thought and early Muslims ), it is understood to be totally forbidden to build structures over graves based on the legal evidences where the Prophet Muhammad ordered to demolish all the structures over graves and forbade acts of worship at the graveyards ( aside from the funeral prayer ) including calling upon other than Allah.

According to Sunni Muslim tradition, Muhammad fasted on this day and asked other people to fast.

According to Sunni Muslims, the first caliph to be called Amir al-Mu ' minin was Abu Bakr Siddique, followed by Umar ibn al-Khattāb, the second of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs.

According to their oral traditions, some time after the arrival of the Lemba with the Ark, it self-destructed.

According to many traditions within Mahāyāna Buddhism, on the way to becoming a Buddha, a bodhisattva proceeds through ten, or sometimes fourteen, grounds or bhūmis.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

According to Mircea Eliade, the Middle Ages witnessed " an upwelling of mythical thought " in which each social group had its own " mythological traditions ".

According to some Jewish religious traditions, Hebrew was the language of the creation.

According to some scholars, All Hallows ' Eve initially incorporated traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honoring the dead, particularly the Celtic Samhain ; other scholars maintain that the feast originated entirely independently of Samhain.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah introduced religious reform and reinstated religious traditions.

According to historian Bernard Lewis, Islamism, ( or as he terms it " activist " Islam ), along with " quietism ," form two " particular ... political traditions " in Islam.

" According to Martin Noth, at the Southern Palestinian stage of the growth of the Pentateuch tradition, Isaac became established as one of the biblical patriarchs, but his traditions were receded in the favor of Abraham.

According to the traditions of the Congo River basin the Mokèlé-mbèmbé is a large territorial herbivore.

According to aboriginal oral traditions, as well as archaeological evidence, maple tree sap was being processed into syrup long before Europeans arrived in the region.

According to Eastern traditions, she retired to Ephesus with the Theotokos ( Mary, the Mother of God ) and there she died.

According to Western Christian belief, matzah was the bread used by Jesus in the Last Supper as there he was celebrating Passover ; Communion wafers used by Roman Catholics ( as well as in some Protestant traditions ) for the Eucharist are flat.

According Steve White, during the Putin presidency Russia made clear that it had no intention of establishing a " second edition " of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Russia's own traditions and circumstances.

According to oral traditions it was established in around 1400 when King Lukena Lua Nimi conquered the kingdom of Kabunga and established Mbanza Kongo as its capital.

According to very early traditions that are presumed to contain a good deal of historical truth, the edhilingui were the descendants of the Saxons who led the tribe out of Holstein and during the migrations of the sixth century.

According to Muslims, sharia law is founded on the words of Allah as revealed in the Quran, and traditions gathered from the life of the Prophet Muhammad.

According to some Jewish traditions ( e. g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b ; Genesis Rabbah 46: 7 ; Genesis Rabbah 56: 10 ; Leviticus Rabbah 25: 6 ; Numbers Rabbah 4: 8.

According to later traditions, he had some adventures and founded Canusium and Argyrippa in Southern Italy.

According to some Christian and other mono-theistic traditions, God is not " all-powerful " because He is bound by specific laws and guidelines that are a part of His fundamental nature.

According to the University, the Latin motto Sidere mens eadem mutato can be translated as " Though the constellations change, the mind is universal ", therefore, conveying the aspiration that " the traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern.

According to some Iranian mythological traditions, it was originally erected by Tahmuras Diveband, and afterward fell to ruin.

( According to some traditions, only olive oil is abstained from ; in others, all vegetable oils.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

According to most traditions, no blessing is recited at this point in the Seder, unlike the blessing recited over the washing of the hands before eating bread at any other time.