How rulings are reached: what sharia is, the four schools and their evidence, following a madhhab, and how hadith are collected and judged.
How hadith were carried, checked and graded, drawn as pictures: a chain taken apart, the grading scale, the Sunni and Shiʿi collections on a timeline, the five rulings, the academic debate, and a searchable glossary.
Fifteen everyday questions where the Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī and Ḥanbalī schools differ, with each side's Qur'an and hadith and how strong that evidence is, plus the four imams, their dates, books and who learned from whom.
Hanafi is a school of law. Deobandi and Barelvi are movements inside it. Three names, but not three parallel choices, and the confusion does real work.
The word, the sources, the five rulings, the aims, the ḥudūd and the doubt maxim, and what any of it asks of a Muslim living under Australian law. Sunni and Shia methods side by side, with the weak reports labelled.
The hadith that carry the arguments in the Deen articles, in one searchable list: a short summary, the narrator, the grade sunnah.com shows and who gave it, and links back to the articles that rely on it.
Who carried the hadith, and how were they judged? The isnād, the generations, the language of narrator criticism, Sunni and Shia rijāl, and five real chains you can tap through.
Every major hadith collection, Sunni, Shia, Zaydī and Ibāḍī, with who compiled it, when and where, how it reached us, how big it is and how its own tradition rates it. Browse as a tree or a timeline.
Every major school, creed and movement in Islam, where and when it began, who carried it forward, and where it stands today. Browse it as a family tree or a timeline.
Ṣaḥīḥ, ḥasan, ḍaʿīf, "graded by al-Albānī": what those labels on hadith citations actually mean, who decides them, how Sunni and Shia methods differ, and how to check a reference yourself.
Must a lay Muslim stick to one school? Can you switch, or take the easiest view each time? What the classical jurists, the Shia marājiʿ and modern fiqh councils actually say, with a plain guide for Muslims in Australia.