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"The History of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah", Lecture 7
speaker, Dr. Hassan Ansari
May 27, 2025

🟥 Lecture in Farsi, can be watched with closed caption (CC) and auto-translate on our channel.

Session 7:
In this session, we discussed the history of orthodox Sunni Islam regarding two topics: the Rightly Guided Caliphs (Khulafā' al-Rāshidīn) and the preference of the companions and caliphs. By revisiting documents from the third century, we showed how the scholars of Hadith and Sunnah made significant efforts to establish an orthodox position, despite differing beliefs about the caliphate. They aimed to create a structured preference for the caliphs and the subject of the wars during the period, which was referred to as the 'First Fitna.' Their goal was to establish this as an orthodoxy, categorizing it as 'Sunnah' in opposition to 'Bida' (innovation). This process involved marginalizing opposing views and beliefs from the domain of Sunnah. This transformation was particularly solidified during the period of the Mihnah (the inquisition) and the opposition of the Hadith scholars to the religious policies of the caliph Mamun and his successors. As a result, a new concept of the caliphate/political power emerged, and in the discussion of preference, they effectively positioned themselves as representatives of a 'preference tradition' that was concerned with criteria aimed at consolidating the political and religious authority of the Hadith scholars and the Ahl al-Sunnah (people of the tradition). In this framework, the companions of the Prophet (Sahabah) were assumed to be both just and the predecessors ('Salaf') of the Sunnah.

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