Alp Arslan's victories changed the balance in near Asia completely in favour of the Seljuq Turks and Sunni Muslims.

In 1866, these dissenters filed a suit in the Bombay High Court against Hasan Ali Shah, claiming that the Khojas had been Sunni Muslims from the very beginning.

They are largely Sunni Muslims, in contrast to the Hazara, who are mostly Shias.

Before Maimonides concluded this, Sunni Muslims officially prohibited mutah ( i. e. temporary marriage ) relationships ; some commentators ' suggest that Maimonides changed his view in response to this development, similar to Gershom ben Judah's ban on polygamy being made after Christians had prohibited it.

Sunni Muslims believe and confirm that Muhammad's father-in-law Abu Bakr was chosen by the community and that this was the proper procedure.

Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims differ on the legitimacy of the reigns of the Khulfa-e-Rashideen, the first four Caliphs.

In 1305, after the issuing of a fatwa by the scholar Ibn Taymiyyah calling for jihad against all non-Sunni Muslims like the Druze, Alawites, Ismaili, and twelver Shiites, al-Malik al-Nasir inflicted a disastrous defeat on the Druze at Keserwan and forced outward compliance on their part to orthodox Sunni Islam.

The four schools ( or Madh ' hab ) of Sunni Muslims are each named by students of the classical jurist who taught them.

For example, Sunni Muslims would favor a Sunni fatwā whereas Shiite would follow a Shi ' a one.

Shi ' a Muslims do not use the six major hadith collections followed by the Sunni.

In 2010, a survey of Muslims in Lebanon showed that 94 % of Lebanese Shia supported Hezbollah, while 84 % of the Sunni Muslims held an unfavorable opinion of the group.

In every day terms, the imam for Sunni Muslims is the one who leads Islamic formal ( Fard ) prayers, even in locations besides the mosque, whenever prayers are done in a group of two or more with one person leading ( imam ) and the others follow by copying his ritual actions of worship.

Those who are considered imams in the context of scholarly authority by Sunni Muslims.

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.

The majority of the kingdom's inhabitants were native Christians, especially Greek and Syrian Orthodox, as well as Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

Consequently, the demographics of Lebanon were profoundly altered, as the territory added contained people who were predominantly Muslim or Druze: Lebanese Christians, of which the Maronites were the largest subgrouping, now constituted barely more than 50 % of the population, while Sunni Muslims in Lebanon saw their numbers increase eightfold, Shi ' ite Muslims fourfold.

Syria's refusal to exit Lebanon following Israel's 2000 withdrawal from south Lebanon first raised criticism among the Lebanese Maronite Christians and Druze, who were later joined by many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims.

Palestinian refugees, predominantly Sunni Muslims, whose numbers are estimated at between 160, 000-225, 000, are not active on the domestic political scene.

Most Moroccans are Sunni Muslims, mainly of Arab-Berber, Arabized Berber or Berber stock.

Both Sunni and Shia Muslims agree al-Mahdi will arrive first, and after him, Jesus.

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A large number of academics consider Bektashism to have fused a number of Sunni, Shi ' a and Sufi concepts, although the order contains rituals and doctrines that are distinct unto itself.

The term has been in use since the Middle Ages but today refers especially to a follower of a modern Sunni Islamic movement known as Salafiyyah or Salafism, which is related to or includes Wahhabism ( a name which some of its proponents consider derogatory, preferring the term Salafism ), so that the two terms are often viewed as synonymous.

The majority of Sunni Muslims do not consider the son of Hasan al-Askari to be the Mahdi nor to be in occultation.

Sunnis that follow one of the four Sunni Schools of Law ( Hanafi • Shafi ` i • Maliki • Hanbali ) for the most part consider Khums to be something that exists, and do not consider it as an innovation.

The adherents of this movement ( sometimes referred to as Salafis ) consider it as such, because they find no evidence for its establishment in any of the four major Sunni sources of jurisprudence ( Qur ' an ( the central religious text of Islam ) • Sunnah ( the observed ways of living and sayings of Muhammad ) • Ijma ' ( consensus of the community of Muslims ) • Qiyas ( process of analogical reasoning from a known injunction ( nass ) to a new injunction )).

Three of the four Sunni madhhabs — Shafi ' is, Hanafis, and Hanbalis — allow this, although Hanafis consider it to be makrooh, a disliked act.

Sunni Muslims consider Ali as one of the prominent companions of Muhammad, among the ten, including Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman, who were informed with the gift of paradise.

A majority of the Sunni scholars consider Abu Hurairah to be one of the major trustworthy narrators of Hadith.

The Sunni School of thought does not consider Justice of God as part of Uṣūl ad-Dīn ( fundamentals of faith ).

Olivier Roy argues that " Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century " when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and focus on Islamistation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on " sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions ," and rejection of Shia Islam.

Additionally to the bombardment campaign conducted by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, tension between the Shia Hazara Hezb-i Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari and the Sunni Pashtun Ittihad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf soon escalated into a second violent conflict.

The second Sunni caliph Umar at one time prohibited women from attending mosques especially at night because he feared they may be teased by males, so he required them to pray at home.

The Maturidi school, the second largest school of Sunni theology, posits the existence of a form of natural law.

Muslims will then perform the funeral prayer for him and then bury him in the city of Medina in a grave left vacant beside Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and Umar ( companions of Muhammad and the first and second Sunni caliphs ( Rashidun ) respectively ).

Alsammarae was born in 1951 to a prominent Sunni Muslim family in Baghdad, Iraq, the second youngest of 13 children.

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.

Newham has the second highest percentage of Muslims in Britain at 24. 3 % and Forest Gate reflects this with 23. 4 % stating their religion as Islam in the 2001 census, many have their roots in Pakistan and mostly follow the Sunni Deobandi or the Salafi tradition.

It is the second most authentic hadith collection after Sahih Al-Bukhari, and is highly acclaimed by Sunni Muslims.

Sunni Muslims regard this collection as the second most authentic of the Six major Hadith collections, containing only sahih hadith, an honor it shares only with Sahih Bukhari, both being referred to as the Two Sahihs.

It was built in 1937 by the nascent Islamic community ( then mostly Sunni Muslims from the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon ), and was only the second mosque constructed in the United States.

According to Sunni Muslims, Muhammad said: " The best people are those living in my generation, then those coming after them, and then those coming after ( the second generation )".

Fatimah bint al-Khattab was the sister of the second Sunni Caliph: Umar.

* Khattab bin Nufayl was the father of Umar bin al-Khattab, the second Sunni Caliph.

He was also the father of Umar ibn al-Khattab, who would later become Muslim and is regarded by Sunni Muslims as the second " Rightly guided Caliph " ( Arabic " Rashidun "), thus he was a Sahaba's ancestor.

Zayd ibn Umar ( Arabic: زيد بن عمر ) was the son of the second caliph of Sunni Islam Umar ibn al-Khattab

All mainstream Muslim scholars ' perspectives from both Sunni and Shia sects do not see the second coming of the Messiah as the coming of a new prophet, as the Islamic Messiah Jesus of Nazareth had already been an existing prophet, and will rule by the Qur ' an and Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad, bringing no new revelation or prophecy.

In Sunni Islam, a marriage contract must have two male witnesses, or, in the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, one man and two women, if a second male is unavailable.