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| | Amal (Page 1) |
 | | The 'amal is the normative practice of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, or that of the first four khalifs, the Companions and their Successors, the Tabi'un, and the generation after them, the Tabi'u't-Tabi'in. |
 | | If the 'amal is from the time of the Prophet, it is preferred because this category of 'amal is definitively authoritative and has a multiple transmission (mutawatir) whereas the other hadiths, being single transmissions, one from one, are merely probable. |
 | | To conclude, thus 'amal consists of the parameters of action in Madina which were used to judge the hadith and to preserve the Sunna. |
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