Ḥadīth, Ibāḍism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Gaiser, Adam R.
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Brill
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Like other Muslims, Ibāḍīs have long employed ḥadīth (in the general sense of what was related about the Prophet and his community) in seeking to understand how Islam should be understood and practised (Wilkinson, Ibāḍism , 126). Up to the sixth/twelfth century, however, Ibāḍīs preserved attitudes towards ḥadīth that, on the one hand, remained closer to earlier Islamic approaches to it, but, on the other hand, increasingly diverged from Sunnī and later Shīʿī norms concerning ḥadīth . Since the sixth/twelfth century, Ibāḍīs have progressively adopted Sunnī standards for ḥadīth . This