Ahl-e-Hadeeth

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Ahl-e-Hadeeth is a Salafi Islamic movement in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India. As with all Salafists, they differ from orthodox traditionalist Sunnis in their rejection of the concept of taqlid which is dubbed as blind adherence (in this case to a specific madhab). The Salafi contention with taqlid is with the Sunni idea of there being a necessity to adhere to one of the four Sunni schools of religious jurisprudence (madhhab). The name derives from their claim that they consider the hadeeth (prophetic tradition) and the Quran as being the only sources of religious authority. The Ahl-e-Hadeeth movement is considerably influenced by the so-called "Wahhabi" movement, and holds many Wahhabi ideologues in high regard, such as Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab and Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz. Although members of the Ahl-e-Hadeeth movement reject the idea of referring to themselves as Wahabis, this is because the term Wahabis is derived from the name of a human being, and Salafi movements distance themselves from anything that they feel could be idolatry.

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• Wahhabism
• Barelvi
• Deobandi
• Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen