It is obvious from this incident that Umar ibn al-Khattab...

It is obvious from this incident that Umar ibn al-Khattab was of the view that he was not bound by the Prophet's Sunnah. This explains the edicts which he issued when he became the caliph and in which he employed his own view even when it contradicted the Prophet's statements. Actually, he followed his own personal views when he contradicted clear divine texts. He thus prohibited what Allah had permitted, and vice versa .

It is only natural to see that all his supporters among the sahaba harbor the same attitude with regard to the Prophet's Sunnah. The next chapters will prove to the reader that those sahabah had in fact, and to the great misfortune of the Islamic Ummah, forsaken the Sunnah of the Prophet and adopted the Sunnah of Umar ibn al-Khattab instead. [^1]: It is the famous “Thursday Calamity” recorded in both al-Bukhari's and Muslim's Sahih books. [^2]: Al-Bukhari, Sahih, Vol. 4, p. 4.