These traditions are designated as Mutawatir ...

These traditions are designated as Mutawatir , meaning that they have been reported from the Prophet successively by so many different unbroken chains of transmission and such a number of narrators in every generation that it would be virtually impossible to fabricate their existence without such fabrication becoming known. [2] The verses of the Qur’an concerning the Mahdi have also been interpreted by numerous traditions through Sunni chains of transmission, as will be seen in the third chapter.

There are many other important terms and practices widely accepted by the Sunnis but that are not explicitly mentioned in…