Islamic Law and its Origins
In Our Time: Religion
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The Prophetic Hadiz Was the Second Fundamental Pillar of Islamic Law
The work of jurisprudence is a human endeavour. What they are trying to do is to discover, uncover what god has said. And that's why the hadith becomes so emr important. By the eighth century, people were using the word sunna and saying, what does this mean? Because sunna literally meant the way of a people or the normative practice of a people.
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