The shared center — held across the tradition
Authority passed to the community.
The consensus chose Abu Bakr; legitimacy flows through the umma, not a bloodline.
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The sunna patterns the whole of life.
The Prophet's example, preserved in hadith, reaches from prayer to table manners.
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Four schools, one law.
Hanafi, Maliki, Shafii, Hanbali — parallel, mutually valid readings of the sharia.
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