Meanings of Sunnah in English

Security sources said one Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama cell was struggling to afford ammunition or food.

A statement said the two were captured in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad by the Ansar al-Sunnah army.

Quoted in Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 'The Significance of the Sunnah and Hadith' in Islamic Spirituality, pp.107-8.

But he adds that the practice is "Sunnah", part of the teaching of the prophet, and he believes it is necessary.

Thus, in Islâm, a whole system, which could not even pretend to draw its authority from the Sunnah, had come to be accepted.

The first of these - that between the Sunnah and Shiah - was prefigured in the struggle for the leadership after Muhammad's sudden death.

One of Iraq's most feared insurgent groups, Ansar al-Sunnah, posted the video on an Islamic website known as a clearing house for militant movements' material.

There has been much debate about the validity of the sunnah and hadith: some are regarded as more authentic than others.