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Sunni Islam (/?su?ni/ or /?s?ni/) is a denomination of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad's first Caliph was his father-in-law Abu Bakr. Sunni Islam primarily contrasts with Shi'a Islam, which holds that Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib, not Abu Bakr, was his first caliph.[1][2] Sunni Islam is by far the largest denomination of Islam. As of 2009, Sunni Muslims constituted 87–90% of the world's Muslim population.[3] Its adherents are referred to in Arabic as ahl as-sunnah wa l-jam??ah (Arabic: ??? ????? ?????????), "people of the tradition of Muhammad and the consensus of the Ummah" or ahl as-sunnah (Arabic ??? ?????) for short. In English, its theological study or doctrine is called Sunnism, while adherents are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis, Sunnites and Ahlus Sunnah. Sunni Islam is the world's largest religious denomination, followed by Roman Catholicism.[4][5] Sunni Islam is sometimes referred to as "orthodox Islam".[6][7][8] The word "Sunni" comes from the term Sunnah (Arabic ???), which refers to the sayings and actions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as recorded in the hadith.[9] The primary collections consisting of Kutub al-Sittah accepted by Sunni orthodoxy, in conjunction with the Quran and binding consensus, form the basis of all jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. Laws are derived from these basic sources; in addition, Sunni Islam's juristic schools recognize differing methods to derive legal verdicts such as analogical reason, co . . . more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni_Islam
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