"And whatever the Messenger gives you, take
        it, and whatever he forbids you, leave it."
                                                     [Qur'an 59:7]

 In Islam, the Arabic word sunnah has come to denote
 the way Prophet Muhammad (saas), the Messenger of
 Allah, lived his life. The Sunnah is the second source of
 Islamic jurisprudence, the first being the Qur'an. Both
 sources are indispensable; one cannot practice Islam
 without consulting both of them. The Arabic word hadith
 (pl. ahadith) is very similar to Sunnah, but not identical.
 A hadith is a narration about the life of the Prophet
 (saas) or what he approved - as opposed to his life
 itself, which is the Sunnah as already mentioned.