08-04-2004, 08:07 AM
Assalamualaykum....
there are three categories of sunnah:
1) Sunnah that interprets the Qur'an (most importants sunnah)
2) Sunnah that confirms the Qur'an
3) Independent sunnah (very few)
Al-Qur'an mentions the ibadah in 'mujmal' or general form. for example:
Qur'an tells us to perform salah, but only through the sunnah we know how to perform salah.
the same goes to saum/fasting, zakah and many more...
i once met an anti-sunnah person in a restaurant. he told me that we shouldn't rely on sunnah but the Qur'an only. then i told him that he is eating the haram food, because his food consists of rice and fish. i told him that the fish had not been slaughtered, so it is haram. he then replied that fish does not need to be slaughtered. then i asked him, which of the ayah of the Qur'an says so? it is the sunnah that tells us the fish does not require slaughtering.....
how irony it was....