Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam.
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Hello Mr Tschannen! The link doesn’t work on the upper image. How can I take a closer look at it? Is there a better link, perhaps?
do ahmedis consider themselves as a school within sunni faith?
I think the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at did say that “in case of details that I have not given any directions you may follow the Hanafi School”.
So if your leader considers Abu Hanifa worthy to be followed then why only his fiqh positions and not his creed?
Abu Hanifa clearly was a follower of Ahlus Sunnah creed. He believed in miracles, in adam’s creation from earth without parents, in the literal return of the messiah and many other mainstream beliefs