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And as i said there were trees before humans called them trees, this is not about word usage bit about a split in religious mores, that you fail to comprehend that is not my problem
A tree has an objective existence, a sectarian religious identity is defined by adherence to certain principles that differentiate their group from others, and there were many others before 'Sunni' even existed.
I have, just because it does not agree with your apologetics is not my problem... Ha,ha, so you cannot even bare academic papers to contradict your apologetics. It must be so had for you to admit you are beaten by a blonde woman.
You much more entertaining today than you usually are (unfortunately you aren't doing much for the stereotype by running Dunning-Kruger victory laps)
I'll stop dumbing it down for you though and see how well you can respond (0% possibility of anything substantial again, but as long as you continue to be a source of amusement I'll keep rolling the dice ).
What became Sunni Islam emerged from a long process that cumulated in a number of factional disputes in 8th/9th C Iraq such as those between Mutazilite and traditionists, between whether it was correct to follow the sunnah of Muhammad or the Sunnah of the Caliph, etc
As you can see from this example, the 'sunni' are 'the oppressed' in this conflict with a Mutazilite caliph.
The stage was set for a confrontation between the caliph and the ulama. The link between Iraq and the ashãb sunna may be explained by the fact that the Mihna was initiated and enforced primarily upon the ulama of Iraq.46 The caliph wanted the ulama to submit to his will and acknowledge him, as caliph, as the religious authority to guide all believers. One of the ulama who directly opposed the caliph was Ahmad b. Hanbal who, by any standard, was pivotal in the development of Sunnism.47 Paradoxically, the Mihna resulted in the opposite of what the caliph intended: it united the opposition as the ulama rallied around the figure of Ibn Hanbal, who, together with other ashãb sunna , said that a caliph does not define Islam. They rejected the caliph's carefully crafted rational arguments, while paying lip service to al-Ma'mūn's demands.48 The ashãb sunna highlighted their accounts about the correct behavior of a Muslim rather than a caliph's opinion about what a Muslim should believe. Thus the first and most important tenet of Sunnism was established in opposition to the caliph's will and a momentous step was taken in the crystallization of Sunnism as we know it.
This is an actual scholarly source btw, The Appellation "Ṣāḥib Sunna" in Classical Islam: How Sunnism Came To Be - John A. Nawasit and is from the journal Islamic Law and Society Vol. 23, No. 1/2 2016, published by Brill (an academic publisher) The Appellation "Ṣāḥib Sunna" in Classical Islam: How Sunnism Came To Be on JSTOR
If what became the 'Sunni' had been the dominant group who Ali split from as you claim, how would you explain them being marginalised at this point ?
Would you say the Sunni represent the Islam of the historical Muhammad, and ibn Hanbal was simply restoring Islam to its former state?
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