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 According to Racha El Omari, early Mutazilites believed that hadith were susceptible to "abuse as a polemical ideological tool"; that the "matn" (content) of the hadith -- not just the "isnad" -- ought to be scrutinized for doctrine and clarity; that hadith "supported by some form of "tawātur"", i.e. by a large number of "isnād" strands, each beginning with a different Companion, were valid. In writing about "mutawatir" (transmitted via numerous chains of narrators) and "ahad" (any ahadith that is not "mutawatir") and its importance from the legal theoretician's point of view, Wael Hallaq notes the medieval scholar Al-Nawawi argued