The 365 · Sunnah · Day 364 · Quran
Following the Sunnah in Every Affair
This day is still being reviewed. Its wording, transliterations, and references are being checked before it is final, so please take care with transliterations until then.
The hadith
«لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ في رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ» (الأحزاب 21). وَقَالَ ﷺ: «تركت فيكم الّذي إن تمسّكتم به لن تضلّوا أبداً: كتاب اللّه وسنّتي».
Allah says: 'In the Messenger of Allah you have a beautiful example.' (al-Aḥzāb 33:21). The Prophet ﷺ said: 'I have left among you what, if you hold to it, you will never go astray: the Book of Allah and my Sunnah.' (Mālik in al-Muwaṭṭa' 1614; al-Ḥākim)
Svenska: Allah säger: 'I Allahs sändebud har ni ett vackert exempel.' (al-Aḥzāb 33:21). Profeten ﷺ sade: 'Jag har lämnat bland er det som, om ni håller fast vid det, ni aldrig ska gå vilse: Allahs Bok och min Sunnah.' (Mālik)
al-Aḥzāb 33:21; Mālik 1614
The story
Imām Mālik refused to enter Madinah's roads on a mount because he did not want to ride over the dust the Prophet's ﷺ feet might have touched. His love of Sunnah extended to dust. We are asked for less, but for genuine love.
Why it's here
Today's Sunnah is the meta-Sunnah: follow the Prophet ﷺ in everything. The year has been a long walk in his footsteps; the penultimate day reinforces the principle. His Sunnah covers every domain; the believer's job is to follow it daily.
Try it today
Audit your day. In every category (waking, hygiene, eating, prayer, work, family, sleep), are you doing it the Prophet's ﷺ way? Where you have drifted, return. The Sunnah is the path; you are the walker.
In your day
Modern Muslims often live more like their non-Muslim neighbors than like the Prophet ﷺ. Recover. One Sunnah at a time. The 365 days of this year were meant to be exactly this walk.
A reflection to carry
The year's 365 Sunnahs were a sustained training. Tomorrow seals the principle: love and follow.
Read the longer reflection
Today's penultimate Sunnah holds the year together. Every individual Sunnah we have studied was an instance of one principle: follow the Beloved ﷺ. May Allah make us of his followers in life and may He raise us with him in Paradise.
Sources: Riyad as-Salihin, Tirmidhi. The Qur'an and its translation are verified; the scholarship is retold faithfully in our own words and credited to its sources, never reproduced verbatim.
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