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Bid'ah
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Bid'ah is an innovation in religious practice: something introduced into worship or belief without basis in the Qur'an, sunnah, or early practice. Scholars differ on whether every innovation is treated the same way. The term applies to practices, not automatically to the people who do them.
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Sunnah
Sunnah is the example of the Prophet Muhammad — his sayings, actions, and approvals, recorded in hadith. It is a source of Islamic law second only to the Qur'an. The word is also…
Hadith
A hadith is a report of something the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or approved of. It passes down through a chain of narrators, called an isnad. Scholars grade each hadith's…