sunna

Body of traditional social and legal custom and practice that constitutes proper observance of Islam. Early Muslims did not concur on what constituted sunna, because of the wide variety of pre-Islamic practices among converted peoples that had to be assimilated, reconciled, or abandoned. In the 8th century the sunna of Muhammad, as preserved in eyewitness records, was codified as the Hsubdotadīth by Abū aynAbd Allāh Shāfayniī. Later Muslim scholars strengthened the authority of sunna by devising a system for attesting the authenticity of various practices claimed as descending from Muhammad. Seealso aynilm al-hsubdotadīth; isnād; Sharīaynah; tafsīr.

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• Sunna, an Old High German Sun goddess: see Sól (Sun)
• Sunna, an Icelandic name meaning "the sun".
• Sunna, a Saxon chief whose people were widespread in eastern Berkshire, southern England. A number of English place names are derived from this name including Sonning (historically spelled "Sunning"), Sonning Eye, Sunbury, Sunningdale, Sunninghill and Sunningwell, many close to the River Thames.
• Sunne, a municipality in Sweden.
• Sunnah, a part of Islamic law.
• Sunna (band), a defunct British rock band active in the early 2000s.
• Suñña is the Pāli word for "empty" or "void" (see Shunyata), most frequently found in Buddhist texts.