The Sunnis follow the Caliphates of all four, while the Shi ' ites recognize only the Caliphate of Ali and the short Caliphate of his son Hasan.

Sunnis, including Kurds, would follow him because he was Sunni from a respected family.

The Al Khalifa ruling family and its supporting tribes adhere to the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, while the Huwala Sunnis follow the Shafi ' i school.

Sunnis generally do not identify themselves with a particular school of thought — simply calling themselves " Sunnis ", but they do follow their individual ' Madh ' habs exclusively and respectfully.

As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

He wrote fondly of Akbar's reign, when " Sunnis and Shias met in one mosque, and Franks and Jews in one church, and observed their own forms of worship.

He studied under various famed scholars including Hisham ibn Urwah, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, and — along with Imam Abu Hanifa, the founder of the Hanafi Sunni Madh ' hab -- and under the household of the prophets lineage, Imam Jafar al Sadiq This fact may explain the mutual respect and relative peace that has often existed between the Hanafi and Maliki Sunnis, on one hand, and the Shias on the other.

Borges may have found a reference to it in any number of places, one of the most likely being accounts of the excavations, of the Kharijites, or of the Ibadhis – considered by Sunnis, but not by themselves, to be Kharijite – who live in what is today called the M ’ zab, in the Pentapolis ( five cities ), some of the minarets of which look somewhat like obelisks with flattened tops.

The Sunnis believe, the word simply means beloved or revered one.

Sunnis believe Abu Bakr, one of the early converts to Islam, Muhammad ’ s closest companions, adviser and father-in-law, was his first successor.

Iran on one side through the militias which they control and through direct involvement with the national guard and the intelligence services, that causes the killing and destruction of the Sunnis ... And then there is the American occupation which destroys the Iraqi people.

Though the population is mixed between Sunnis and Shi ' ites, it contains one of the largest concentrations of Twelvers ( اثنا عشرية ) Shi ' ite Muslims in the predominantly Sunni Muslim country.

When in the 80 ’ s the Islamic world became fascinated with the slogans of Khomeini, “ No East, No West, but one Islam one Qurʾān ”, Abdullah Sungkar unceasingly reminded that Iran was Shi ' ite and heretic and slaughtered Sunnis as well as destroyed the masaajid ( mosques ) of the Ahlus Sunnah.

Sunnis honour her as Ummu l-Khayr " Mother of Goodness " (), referring to Abū Bakr, whom Muslims honour as and one of the The Ten Promised Paradise among Muhammad's early companions, the Sahāba.

( That would be, according to Sunnis, one who adheres to the beliefs and actions of the Ahlus Sunnah wal-Jama ' ah ).

While Sunnis regard Umar ibn al-Khattab in high esteem and respect his place as one of the " Four Righteously Guided Caliphs ", Shia hold an opposing perspective of him.

Shia argue that there are only single narrations on the occasions where Muhammad supposedly forbade it, on seven contradictory times, and even though the vast majority of the hadith related to the topic unanimously claim that Umar forbade Nikah Mut ' ah, even himself saying so, still the Sunnis choose to hold the few claiming Muhammad as the one forbidding it as authentic.

The first four Caliphs: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib are commonly known by Sunnis, mainly, as the Khulafā ’ ur-Rāshideen (" rightly guided successors ") Caliphs.

The Sunnis recognize the first four caliphs as Muhammad's rightful successors.

While Sunnis regard him as his rightful successor ( caliph ), chosen by the people, indeed, the first of four righteous Caliphs ( Rashidun ), the Shi ' a insist that he violated Muhammad's direct orders and orchestrated a Coup d ' état.

The above point is not disputed by Sunnis, but the following four are:

Sunnis do not contest the parentage of Khadijah's daughters and believe that all four were borne to Muhammad.

A cycle of violence thus ensued whereby Sunni insurgent or nationalist attacks followed with government and American backed reprisals-often in the form of Shi ' ite death squads that sought out and killed Sunnis.

Sidon is a conservative city with a Sunni Muslim majority: Sunnis make up approximately ( 80 %) of the local population, Shiites and Christians combined make up ( 20 %).

For short, in English, they are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis or Sunnites.

With an overwhelming density of Sunni Muslims, Tripoli is considered as the traditional bastion of conservative Sunnis in Lebanon.

Since Sunni Islam was the religion of Iran's main rival, the Ottoman Empire, Abbas often treated Sunnis living in western border provinces harshly.

In June 2007, al-Sadr vowed to go ahead with a planned march to the devastated Askariyya shrine in central Iraq, al-Sadr said the march was aimed at bringing Shi ' is and Sunnis closer together and breaking down the barriers imposed by the Americans and Sunni religious extremists.

In turn, the Sunnis have complained of discrimination and human rights abuses by Iraq's Shia majority government, which is bolstered by the fact that Sunni detainees were allegedly discovered to have been tortured in a compound used by government forces on November 15, 2005.

As a Sunni tribal leader, he reassured his fellow Sunnis while also representing a familiar type of authority figure for the tribal Kurds, and embodying traditional values esteemed by Shiite religious figures.

There are also some Sunnis of the Yam tribe, both recent converts and adherents to Sunni Islam for generations ..

It is described by visitors such as the Sunni Muslim Ibn as-Saghir as notably multi-religious, with a significant and loyal Christian minority and a substantial number of Sunnis and Jews, and open religious debate was encouraged.

Jamia Markazu Ssaqafathi Ssunniyya is a Shafi ' i Sunni Islamic school in Kerala, India under Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musalyar, the supremo of the A. P. Sunnis.

Thus, while Iraq's body politic crumbled under immense political and economic pressure throughout the monarchic period, the military gained increasing power and influence ; moreover, because the officers in the new army were by necessity Sunnis who had served under the Ottomans, while the lower ranks were predominantly filled by Shia tribal elements, Sunni dominance in the military was preserved.

The community is overwhelmingly Sunni ; the Sunnis are almost completely assimilated into broader society.

The largest Arab Sunni party, The Iraqis, won only 1. 78 % of the vote ( for comparison, Arab Sunnis are thought to be 15-20 % of the population ).

Despite the boycott and the resulting tiny Arab Sunni representation in the assembly, the major party leaders have assured the Arab Sunnis that they will have input into the new constitution.

In August 2003, a conflict erupted in the village of Yerere in Western Mali when traditional Sunni practitioners attacked Wahhabi Sunnis, who were building an authorized mosque.

# Sunnis ( E. K. Sunni, A. P. Sunni etc.

The Sunnis referred here are identified by their conventional beliefs and practices and adherence to the Shafi ' i madh ' hab, while the other two theological orientations, the Mujahids and the Jama ' ats, are seen as movements within the Sunni Islam.

Sunnis oppose intra-factional marriages while Mujahids stick to their practice of so-called ‘ wedding sermon ’ ( Khutbah ) which is totally unknown to Sunni texts.

When they wanted to be derogatory, Sunnis called their Shi ' i opponents Rawafid and the Shi ' ites responded by calling their Sunni opponents Nawasib.