[835] The detailing of these rules and prohibitions.
[836] Sunan (sing. sunnah) are the laws, course and the followed path (cf. al-Iṣfahānī, al-Mufradāt; al-Kafawī, al-Kulliyāt). “The laws of those who came before you,” is the most laudable course that earlier honouarble Prophets of God (عليهم السلام) and their rightly-guided followers took in life (cf. 42: 13; al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī).