Hadith of the Quran and Sunnah and believe in a different interpretation of this related hadith. The Sunnis and the Shi'as also disagree about what constitutes the "Sunnah". The Sunnis generally accept this hadith, but narrowly define "sunnah" as the sayings and deeds of Muhammad. Although some include the "implied approvals" of Muhammad. This hadith is considered "sahih" by the Sunni, as stated by following scholars: Shi'as reject this hadith and deem it to be a fabrication designed to distract from what they deem to be the real saying of Muhammad: the 'Hadith of the two weighty/precious things' ("Hadith al-Thaqalayn"). Since the Hadith about Quran and
Criticism of Hadith "in the early Islamic centuries there could be no better way of promoting a cause, an opinion, or a faction than to cite an appropriate action or utterance of the Prophet." This gave strong incentive to fabricate hadith. According to Daniel Brown, the major causes of corruption of Hadith literature are: Other criticism made of ahadith include Orthodox Muslims do not deny the existence of false "hadith", but believe that through the work of hadith scholars, these false "hadith" have been largely eliminated. al-Shafi'i himself, the founder of the proposition that “sunna” should be made up exclusively of specific precedents