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 Sunni traditions, when Muhammad was persecuted in Mecca and the time came for him to emigrate to Madinah ( Medina ), he took temporary refuge with his companion Abu Bakr in the cave of Thawr.

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 Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

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 the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

According to the authoritative Dictionary of Islam jihad is defined as: " A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad ... enjoined especially for the purpose of advancing Islam and repelling evil from Muslims.

According to Magieduruge Ibrahim Didi, a learned man from Fua Mulaku, it was merely the name which the converted Maldivians used to refer to their infidel ( ghair dīn = ' redin ') ancestors after the general conversion from Buddhism to Islam.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

According to Islam, the sawab ( rewards ) of fasting are many, but in this month they are believed to be multiplied.

According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, although Kurdish is not a unified language, its many dialects are interrelated and at the same time distinguishable from other western Iranian languages.

According to the early Slavic chronicle called Tale of Bygone Years, which describes life in Kyivan Rus ' up to the year 1110, he sent his envoys throughout the civilized world to judge at first hand the major religions of the time — Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Byzantine Orthodoxy.

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 some scholars, if a Muslim consciously and without coercion declares their rejection of Islam and does not change their mind after the time allocated by a judge for research, then the penalty for male apostates is death, and for women life imprisonment.

According to Islam, God, known in Arabic as Allah, is the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator, Sustainer, Ordainer, and Judge of the universe.

According to David Ownby, religion has, since 1912, been defined to refer to " world-historical faiths " that have " well-developed institutions, clergy, and textual traditions "— namely, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism.

According to Coogan, Ahmed Rami, a former Moroccan military officer who founded Radio Islam to disseminate antisemitic, Holocaust denial, and pro-Nazi propaganda, teamed up with the IHR to organize a conference in a Hezbollah-controlled section of Beirut, Lebanon.

According to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, the meaning of hijab has evolved over time:

According to the book, Sultan Muizuddin Sam Ghaor ( f. 1195-95 A. D .) dedicated two villages in favour of Jama Masjid, Multan, and, handed its administration to the Shaikhul Islam ( highest ecclesiastical officer of the Empire ).

According to the ' American Friends of Bilderberg ', the 2008 agenda dealt " mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islam and Iran ".

According to Pakistani religious scholar, Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, nothing in Islam supports blasphemy law.

According to the above hadith, in Islam a person's du ' a will not be accepted by God if he earns unlawful money.

According to Asbridge, the spread of Islam was unimportant because " Islam and Christendom had coexisted for centuries in relative equanimity ".