Sunnah
E6836
The Sunnah is the body of traditions, practices, and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad that serves as a primary source of Islamic law and guidance alongside the Qur’an.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunnah canonical | 22 |
| Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad | 7 |
| Hadith | 2 |
| Prophetic Sunnah | 2 |
| Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad | 2 |
| Hadith literature | 1 |
| Prophet Muhammad’s practice | 1 |
| Sunna of Prophet Muhammad | 1 |
| Sunna of the Prophet and Imams | 1 |
| sayings of Prophet Muhammad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T66879 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sunnah Context triple: [Islam, legalSource, Sunnah]
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A.
Sharia
Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law derived primarily from the Quran and the teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad, guiding both personal conduct and aspects of public and legal life in Muslim communities.
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B.
Five Pillars of Islam
The Five Pillars of Islam are the fundamental acts of worship and devotion that structure a Muslim’s faith and practice, including declaration of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting in Ramadan, and pilgrimage to Mecca.
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C.
Quran
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Sufism
Sufism is the mystical and spiritual dimension of Islam that emphasizes inner purification, direct experience of the divine, and a path of love and devotion to God.
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E.
Halakha
Halakha is the comprehensive body of traditional Jewish religious law and practice derived from the Torah, Talmud, and later rabbinic rulings.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sunnah Target entity description: The Sunnah is the body of traditions, practices, and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad that serves as a primary source of Islamic law and guidance alongside the Qur’an.
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A.
Sharia
Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law derived primarily from the Quran and the teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad, guiding both personal conduct and aspects of public and legal life in Muslim communities.
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B.
Five Pillars of Islam
The Five Pillars of Islam are the fundamental acts of worship and devotion that structure a Muslim’s faith and practice, including declaration of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting in Ramadan, and pilgrimage to Mecca.
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C.
Quran
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Sufism
Sufism is the mystical and spiritual dimension of Islam that emphasizes inner purification, direct experience of the divine, and a path of love and devotion to God.
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E.
Halakha
Halakha is the comprehensive body of traditional Jewish religious law and practice derived from the Torah, Talmud, and later rabbinic rulings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic ethical guidance
ⓘ
Islamic legal source ⓘ Islamic religious concept ⓘ source of Islamic law ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Prophet Muhammad
ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad
|
| consideredBy |
Shia Islam as primary legal source
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Sunni Islam as primary legal source ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Bid‘ah ⓘ |
| definedAs |
approvals of Prophet Muhammad
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practices of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ sayings of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ traditions of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Hadith literature
ⓘ
linked to:
Sunnah
Prophetic practice ⓘ Prophetic sayings ⓘ Prophetic tacit approvals ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
clarification of Qur’anic verses
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derivation of Islamic rulings ⓘ explanation of acts of worship ⓘ explanation of commercial transactions ⓘ explanation of criminal law ⓘ explanation of family law ⓘ moral and spiritual guidance ⓘ restriction of absolute Qur’anic texts ⓘ specification of general Qur’anic commands ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | binding in Islamic law ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryRole |
explanation of the Qur’an
ⓘ
practical application of the Qur’an ⓘ source of Islamic guidance ⓘ |
| isAlongside |
Qur’an
ⓘ
linked to:
Quran
|
| isSecondTo |
Qur’an
ⓘ
linked to:
Quran
|
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| normativeFor |
Muslim belief
ⓘ
Muslim ethics ⓘ Muslim practice ⓘ |
| partOf | Islam ⓘ |
| rankInShiaFiqh | second after Qur’an ⓘ |
| rankInSunniFiqh | second after Qur’an ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Hadith collections
ⓘ
Jami al-Tirmidhi ⓘ Sahih Muslim ⓘ Sahih al-Bukhari ⓘ Sunan Abu Dawud ⓘ Sunan Ibn Majah ⓘ Sunan al-Nasa’i ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Hadith
ⓘ
linked to:
Sunnah
Sirah of the Prophet ⓘ Usul al-fiqh ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Islamic ethics
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Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ Islamic theology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sunnah Description of subject: The Sunnah is the body of traditions, practices, and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad that serves as a primary source of Islamic law and guidance alongside the Qur’an.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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council of scholars
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maqasid al-shariah
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