Imam Malik said: "The Sunnah is like the Ark of Noah — whoever embarks on it reaches salvation, and whoever refuses is drowned."
Most Muslims think of the Sunnah as the voluntary prayers and perhaps a few well-known practices — twenty or thirty things, most of them attached to worship. This book makes a startling and entirely accurate claim: in the course of a normal day, without adding a single hour to your schedule, you are capable of practicing over a thousand.
Where They Are
They are in the ordinary business of the day, which is exactly why they go unnoticed. Which side you sleep on. What you say on waking, on entering the bathroom, on leaving it, on dressing, on eating, on finishing. How you enter a house. How you greet someone, and how you respond. What you say when you see something that pleases you, and when you hear something that alarms you. How you sit, drink, sneeze, travel, and go to sleep again.
None of it costs anything. All of it was taught deliberately. And the difference between a person who does these and one who does not is, by the end of a year, an enormous quantity of reward for actions that were going to happen anyway.
The Question the Book Asks
The compiler puts it plainly: these are the statements and actions of the Prophet ﷺ performed in a typical day — how many of them are part of our daily lives?
Most readers answer honestly and find the number small. That discovery is the book's whole purpose, and it is why it has spread so widely.
The Compiler
Shaykh Khalid Al-Husaynan is a contemporary student of knowledge occupied with reviving and following the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ. This is the English translation of his Arabic booklet Akthar min Alf Sunnah fil-Yawm wal-Laylah.
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