On his return, he stopped by Kairouan in Ifriqiya, where he met Abu Imran al-Fasi, a native of Fes and a jurist and scholar of the Sunni Maliki school.

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.

In Sunni Islam any fatwā is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be considered by an individual as binding, depending on his or her relation to the scholar.

for a recognized religious scholar or authority in Islam, often for the founding scholars of the four Sunni madhhabs, or schools of jurisprudence ( fiqh ).

* Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari ( 224 – 310 AH ; 838 – 923 CE ) a Sunni scholar.

* Ali ibn al-Madini, Sunni Islamic scholar

* Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Sunni Muslim scholar and historian ( d. 1071 )

* Muhammad Ilyas Qadri ( Urdu: محمد الياس عطار قادرى ) is a Pakistan born scholar of the Sunni and Sufi sect in Islam.

" Nisa ' i was not the only Sunni scholar who accepted this hadith-there were many others, the foremost being the imams Bukhari and imam Muslim who compiled the Sahih of Muslim.

Among his grandsons are Pir Sayed Tahir Allauddin, the Shaykh of Sunni Muslim scholar Shaykh al Islam Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri and Sayed Ahmed Zafar al-Jilani, the elder brother of Pir Sayed Tahir Allauddin and the Naqeeb of Iraq, who blessed Shaykh Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin in 2007, Deputy of Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi, and advised him to work uplift relations between Westerners and Muslims, Arabs, and the people of Iraq .< ref >

In his 9th century work Expositio in Matthaeum Evangelistam, the Benedictine monk Christian of Stavelot referred to them as descendants of Gog and Magog, and says they are " Circumcised and observing all laws of Judaism "; the 14th century Sunni scholar Ibn Kathir also identified Gog and Magog with the Khazars, as did a Georgian tradition, which called them " wild men with hideous faces and the manners of wild beasts, eaters of blood ".

Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari ( Persian: محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن مغيره بن بردزبه بخاری ), popularly known as Bukhari or Imam Bukhari, ( 196-256AH / 810-870AD ), was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Persia.

There have been numerous translation of the Qur ' an into Urdu, the most famous of which is Kanz al-Iman treasure of faith by the Indian Sunni scholar, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan.

Habib Umar bin Hafiz ( left ), a notable Sunni Muslim scholar from Yemen wearing a white turban.

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 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.

Similar statement is mentioned by Sunni scholar Zakariya al-Qazwini, in his book ʿAjā ' ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā ' ib al-mawjūdāt.

On May 18, 2004, Michael Rubin a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ) and an Expert at Wikistrat attacked Pachachi, claiming he had " supported the public execution of Baghdad Jews in 1969 " he also accused Pachachi of speaking " fondly of militant Sunni Islamist Muhammad Ayash al-Kubaisi.

He is revered as an Imam by the adherents of Shi ' a Islam and as a renowned Islamic scholar and personality by Sunni Muslims.

It was said by the prominent Sunni scholar, Ahmad bin Hanbal in regards to Al-waqidi: " He is a liar.

A mufti (, &# x200a ;, Turkish: müftü ) is a Sunni Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law ( Sharia and fiqh ).

Mahmud, although being an orthodox ( Sunni ) in his beliefs, married his only sister Sitr-i-Mu ' alla to Abu Hasan Mamun, a Shi ' a scholar whose son was Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud.

This theory was proposed by Sunni scholar Abul Kalam Azad and endorsed by Shi ' a scholars Allameh Tabatabaei, in his Tafsir al-Mizan and Makarem Shirazi.

According to one Shi ‘ i source, the first person to raise doubts about its attribution to Ali was Ibn Khallikan, a Sunni scholar ( d. 1211 / 1282 ).

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (, ‘ Abdu ’ llāh Yūsuf ‘ Azzām ; 1941 – November 24, 1989 ) was a highly influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who preached in favor of both defensive jihad and offensive jihad by Muslims to help the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet invaders and became a leader of Al Qaeda.

* Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian

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 '.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a contemporary Sunni Muslim scholar, states that sodomy is prohibited.

The famous Sunni scholar Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr says: " His children born of Khadīja are four daughters ; there is no difference of opinion about that ".

Yusuf was a Sunni Sufi Ottoman Palestinian Islamic scholar, judge, prolific poet, and defender of the Ottoman Caliphate.

Yusuf was a firm believer in the law, or Shariah in restricting all Sufi activity, being of the Shafi madhab or thought of Sunni Islam holding a similar stance to al-Ghazali in his later years on Sufism.

The death of Uthman was followed by a civil war known as the First Fitna, and the succession to Ali ibn Abi Talib was disputed, leading to the split between the Sunni and Shia sects, and later to competing caliphates when the descendants of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and Ali set up separate Fatimid societies.

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 Al ash-Sheikh are the descendants of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the 18th century founder of the Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam which is today dominant in Saudi Arabia.

The six acclaimed Sunni collections were compiled by ( in order of decreasing importance ) Muhammad al-Bukhari, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi, Al-Nasa ' i, Ibn Majah.

* Umar ibn al-Khattab succeeds Abu Bakr as Sunni Caliph.

* Ali ibn Abi Talib, Shī ‘ ah Imām and the fourth caliph of Sunni Islam

* Muqatil ibn Sulayman, Sunni mufassir of the Quran

* Ali ibn Abi Talib, cousin of Muhammad, first Shī ‘ ah Imām, and fourth Sunni Caliph ( approximate date )

Views within Sunni Islam branched off even further in later generations, with Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari and Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi defining even a simple majority view as constituting consensus and Ibn Taymiyyah restricting consensus to the view of the religiously learned only.

A pupil, Wasil ibn Ata, who was expelled from the school because his answers were contrary to then Sunni tradition and became leader of a new school, and systematized the radical opinions of preceding sects, particularly those of the Qadarites and Jabarites.

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.

In accordance with the ways of Empire, Muawiyah favoured his Arab subjects over non-Arab Muslims ( the Mawalis )-the discriminatory treatment of non-Arab Muslims by the victorious Umayyad forces are documented by both Sunni and Shia sources as in the example below concerning Muawiyah's commands to his governor Ziyad ibn Abih.

The killing of the two children of Ubaydullah ibn Abbas can also be found in Sunni and Shi ' a texts.

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 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.

‘ Alī ibn Abī Tālib, the cousin of Muhammad, the fourth caliph ( Sunni belief ), the first Imam ( Shia belief ) is buried here.

Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān ( Persian: نعمان بن ثابت بن زوطا بن مرزبان ), better known as Imām Abū Ḥanīfah, ( 699 — 767 CE / 80 — 148 AH ) was the founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of fiqh ( Islamic jurisprudence ).

Imam Ahmad personified the theological views of the early orthodox scholars, including the founders of the other extant schools of Sunni fiqh, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik ibn Anas, and Imam ash-Shafi ` i.

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

It was only after al-Wathiqu's death and the ascent of his brother al-Mutawakkil, who was much friendlier to the more traditional Sunni dogma, that ibn Hanbal was welcomed back to Baghdad.