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History of Islam
Basic Terms 5
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Undergraduate 3
02/03/2007

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Term
Haram
Definition
forbidden
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Wajib
Definition
required
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Ijma
Definition
consensus of the Muslim community
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Imam
Definition
a leader or great scholar, in Shiism understood as one of the authoritative descendants of Muhammad, the only legitimate leader of the community.
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Abu Hanifa (d. 767)
Definition
Kufan scholar who favored using Quran and reason, afraid of forged hadiths
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Ibn Hanbal (d. 855)
Definition
Baghdad scholar who preferred questionable hadiths to reason
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Al-Shafi’i (d. 820)
Definition
scholar who united Partisans of Hadith and Partisans of Reason
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Sahihayn
Definition
the two ‘Authentic’ Hadith collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim
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