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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Sunni Muslims regard ijmā ' as the third fundamental source of Sharia law, after the divine revelation of the Qur ' an, the prophetic practice or Sunnah.

* The Day of Ashura, which is the tenth day of Muharram as well as either a day before, or a day after ( while the Sunni majority take part in this, Shi ' ites refrain due to their sect-specific regard for the day as one of mourning.

Some Sufi orders trace their lineage to Abu Bakr, the first Sunni caliph, others to ' Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad's nephew, whom the Shi ' a regard as the first imam.

He authored the hadith collection named Sahih Bukhari, a collection which Sunni Muslims regard as the most authentic of all hadith compilations.

Sunni Muslims regard Ali with great respect as one of the Ahl al-Bayt and the last of the Rashidun caliphs, as well as one of the most influential and respected leaders in Islam.

Both Sunni and Shia Muslims regard Hasan as a martyr.

The injunction to regard them as mothers overrules this in Sunni thought, particularly as regards Aisha, who was the daughter of Abu Bakr.

In addition to tafsīr, the sunnah, and ijmā ’, Sunni traditions generally regard qiyas as the fourth source of deducing the law.

As with the majority of posthumous works of Shia theology that emerged centuries after the life of the Prophet Muhammad ), Sunni scholars do not regard the Nahj al-Balagha as authentic.

Ibadis were not inclined to integrate with their neighbours, as the majority of Sunni Muslims regard Ibadism as a heretical form of Islam.

But majority of Sunni scholars regard the Tarawih prayers as Sunnat al-Mu ' akkadah, a salaat that was performed by the Islamic prophet Muhammad very consistently.

A majority of Sunni Muslims regard the Tarawih prayers as Sunnat al-Mu ' akkadah, a salaat that was performed by the Islamic prophet Muhammad very consistently.

Some traditional scholars caution against Yusuf Qaradawi's methodology and regard him as excessively lenient as he does not limit himself to the positions of the four Sunni schools of fiqh '.

Sunni regard this collection as sixth in strength of their Six major Hadith collections.

Sunni Muslims also regard the Tabi ‘ un as the best generation after the Sahaba.

Sunni Muslims regard the first four caliphs ( Abu Bakr, ` Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Uthman Ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abu Talib ) as " al-Khulafā ’ ur-Rāshidūn " or " The Rightly Guided Caliphs.

Salafism is, in general, opposed to Sufism as well as sects outside of the Sunni fold, which they regard as heresies.

Current Sunni belief ( Ash ' ari ) is that prophets are only infallible in regard to revelation.

The complete translation ( in nine volumes ) of a popular Sunni collection of hadith.

He wrote al-Jāmi ‛ al-ṣaḥīḥ, popularly called Sunan al-Tirmidhi, one of the six canonical hadith compilations used in Sunni Islam, as well as Shamā ' il Muḥammadiyyah, known popularly as " Shamaail Tirmidhi ", a collection of hadith on Muhammad.

The concept of Mahdi is not mentioned in the Qur ' an nor in the Sunni hadith collection called Sahih al-Bukhari .< ref name =" Brit ">" mahdī.

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

Sunni Muslims consider it the second most authentic hadith collection, after Sahih Bukhari. Sahih Muslim is divided into 43 books, containing a total of 7190 narrations.

Jurists of the Ibadi school, which is neither Shi ' a nor Sunni, deem their own collection of traditions ( in the form of Hadith they themselves have collected ) to be evidence as well ; however, these traditions are largely seen as either apocryphal or redundant by proponents of the previous two schools.

Shia Muslims also support this claim with a hadith mentioned in the Sunni Ṣaḥīḥ collection.

According to the authentic collection of Sunni Islam, Muhammad said that musical instruments are sinful: