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 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 hadith, Prophet Muhammad strongly recommended honey for healing purposes.

According to the hadith, refusal to pay zakat is a sign of hypocrisy, and God won't accept the prayers of such people.

According to a hadith narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas ' ud some of the names of God have been hidden from mankind, therefore there are not only 99 names of God but there are more.

According to this hadith, a Muslim is instructed to make du ' a with a mindful heart.

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 the hadith ( sayings of Prophet Muhammad ), Israfel is the Angel responsible for signaling the coming of Judgment Day by blowing a horn / trumpet.

According to Schweitzer and Perry, the hadith are " even more scathing ( than the Quran ) in attacking the Jews ":

According to Ibn al-Salah, quoting an early religious authority, the first to specialize in the study of hadith narrators was Shu ' bah ibn al-Hajjaj, followed by Yahya ibn Sa ' id al-Qattan and then Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Yahya ibn Ma ' in.

* According to hadith the Islamic prophet Muhammad was asked who should " begin " the salam greeting, and he said:

According to Islamic tradition contained in the hadith, Emperor Negus of Abyssinia and Byzantine Emperor Heraclius received letters from Muhammad containing verses from the Qur ' an.

According to the hadith, he is the angel responsible for signaling the coming of Judgment Day by blowing the trumpet ( namely Sûr ).

According to scholar David Cook, what some believe is scriptural evidence for the existence of the alleged war is found in a popular hadith, one that supposedly prophesises a war against Islam " is the Tradition of Thawban ":

According to a hadith in the collection Sahih Bukhari, Muhammad considered salah " the best deed ".

According to hadith, Muhammad's last stoning was performed just after the noon prayer.

According to Islamic teachings in the hadith ( sayings of Muhammad ), mahr is the amount to be paid by the groom to the bride at the time of marriage ( nikah ) or it may be delayed, according to whatever is agreed upon by the spouses.

According to a hadith attributed to Muhammad, he praised the women of Medina because of their desire for religious knowledge:

According to the Shia, this hadith, the hadith of the pond of Khumm, indicated the intent of Muhammad.

According to a hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah, he says, " I have heard the Messenger of Allah, saying that the black granules ( kalonji ) is the remedy for all diseases except death.

According to tradition, Mu ' awiya hired Samra to deliver a sermon to the Syrians with a hadith claiming that Q. 2: 203-4 was about ʿAli ; Muʿawiya paid to him 4000 dirhams for that.

According to hadith, Muhammad is said to have prophesied that the Masih ad-Dajjal would be the last of a series of thirty Dajjal or " deceivers " ( false prophets ).