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"scope_statement": "This model owns Sunnah as an attributed and interpreted normative example, including the evidence, community context, authority claims, and applicability conditions needed to assess a particular claimed instance without assuming a universally accepted interpretation.", "in_scope": [ "The meaning of Sunnah intended in a particular claim or context", "Conduct, speech, approval, or practice identified as expressing Sunnah", "Evidence connecting an attributed example to the claimed normative practice", "Tradition-specific assessments of authority, interpretation, and disagreement", "Conditions and limits governing contemporary application" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The Quran as a separately modelled scripture", "Individual hadith reports as independently catalogued transmission objects", "Complete systems of Islamic jurisprudence and their legal rulings", "Biographies of religious figures and transmitters", "Religious communities, schools, and institutions as organisational entities", "Individual worship events and personal compliance records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether 'Sunnah' denotes an authoritative example, an inherited practice, or a juristic classification of an act as recommended; these senses require separate assessment.", "A hadith report can supply evidence for a Sunnah claim, but recording the report alone does not establish the claimed normative meaning.", "A customary practice requires an explicit account of its connection to Sunnah; prevalence or antiquity alone does not establish that connection.", "A legal ruling derived partly from Sunnah is an interpretive output and must remain distinguishable from the example and evidence used to support it.", "The model must identify whose understanding of Sunnah is being represented rather than treating one community's attribution or assessment as universal." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended sense of Sunnah", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Normative example; inherited practice; recommended-act classification; another explicitly defined sense; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a claim about authority from being confused with a classification of legal obligation." }, { "name": "Attributed exemplar", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named person or authoritative example, with the attributing tradition and its stated basis", "why_it_matters": "Makes the claimed origin and the boundaries of attribution explicit." }, { "name": "Expression of the example", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Speech; action; reported approval; transmitted practice; combination; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Different expressions raise different questions about intention and normative force." }, { "name": "Evidence basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identifiable reports, textual passages, accounts of practice, and scholarly assessments supporting or challenging the claim", "why_it_matters": "Allows the agent to inspect the actual support instead of relying on the label Sunnah." }, { "name": "Attribution assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed; accepted by a named assessor; qualified; disputed; rejected by a named assessor", "why_it_matters": "Keeps evidential judgments attached to their evaluators and methods." }, { "name": "Normative force", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded classification under a named interpretive framework; disputed; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the agent from assuming that every Sunnah claim means either obligatory or merely recommended." }, { "name": "Application conditions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relevant actors, circumstances, purposes, prerequisites, exceptions, and exclusions", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the claimed example supports action in the situation being considered." }, { "name": "Interpretive agreement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not assessed; agreement within a specified set of authorities; disagreement within a tradition; disagreement across traditions", "why_it_matters": "Bounds statements of agreement and exposes meaningful differences." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate a use of the word Sunnah before interpreting its implications.", "Trace a claimed practice to inspectable evidence and named assessments.", "Compare interpretations while preserving their traditions, premises, and disagreements.", "Separate confidence in attribution from confidence in normative interpretation.", "Assess whether stated application conditions match a proposed situation.", "Produce a qualified explanation or refer an unresolved application question to an appropriate religious authority." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "title": "Sunnah", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sunnah", "what_it_supports": "Core definition as Muhammad's example; role as second source of law; distinction from Qur'an", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "s2", "title": "Q 5:32", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234869", "what_it_supports": "Wikidata identifier Q234869; aliases; related items for hadith and fiqh", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "s3", "title": "Sunnah and Hadith", "url": "https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-686", "what_it_supports": "Scholarly distinction of kinds (qawliyyah, fi'liyyah, taqririyyah); sunnah vs hadith as vehicle vs content; living practice of Medina", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "s4", "title": "The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/hadith", "what_it_supports": "Legal status of sunnah in usul al-fiqh; mu'akkadah/ghayr mu'akkadah; regional school differences", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sunnah-meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "Sunnah meaning and boundaries", "description": "Identifies what the Sunnah claim denotes and the interpretive setting in which it is made.", "rationale": "An agent cannot evaluate Sunnah reliably while conflating normative example, communal practice, and a recommended-act classification.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-sense", "name": "Intended sense", "description": "Establishes the meaning of the term in the claim under review.", "findings": [ { "id": "sense-of-sunnah", "name": "Sense of Sunnah", "description": "Record the intended meaning and any ambiguity that changes how the claim should be assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does Sunnah here name an authoritative example, a transmitted practice, or the recommended status of an act?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sense-of-sunnah-q01" }, { "text": "What surrounding wording or explicit definition establishes that sense?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sense-of-sunnah-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tradition-and-claim-boundary", "name": "Tradition and claim boundary", "description": "Locates the claim within a named tradition and separates it from adjacent concepts.", "findings": [ { "id": "represented-understanding", "name": "Represented understanding", "description": "Record whose understanding is represented and exactly which example or practice is being claimed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community, school, scholar, or source identifies this example as Sunnah?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "represented-understanding-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the description are the claimed Sunnah, and which are accompanying custom, commentary, or legal inference?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "represented-understanding-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "example-and-transmission", "name": "Example and transmission", "description": "Connects the claimed Sunnah to its attributed exemplar and surviving evidence.", "rationale": "A Sunnah label must be distinguishable from the evidence that supports the attribution and from later retellings.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-example", "name": "Attributed example", "description": "Specifies the conduct or expression from which the claim arises.", "findings": [ { "id": "example-content", "name": "Example content", "description": "Record what was reportedly said, done, approved, or practised, with relevant circumstances.", "questions": [ { "text": "What precise speech, action, approval, or practice is attributed to which exemplar?", "kind": "definition", "id": "example-content-q01" }, { "text": "Which details come directly from the evidence, and which were supplied by a later interpreter?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "example-content-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "supporting-witnesses", "name": "Supporting witnesses", "description": "Identifies accessible evidence and meaningful differences among its forms.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-path", "name": "Evidence path", "description": "Record identifiable supporting witnesses and their relationships without assuming that repetition provides independent corroboration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inspectable reports, passages, or accounts of transmitted practice support this attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-path-q01" }, { "text": "Do the witnesses differ in wording, conduct, circumstances, or transmission history in ways that affect the Sunnah claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-path-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidential-standing", "name": "Evidential standing", "description": "Represents assessments of the attribution and the limits of agreement about it.", "rationale": "An agent must preserve who assessed the evidence and avoid turning a local assessment into an unqualified verdict.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-evaluation", "name": "Attribution evaluation", "description": "Keeps assessments attached to their precise evidential targets and methods.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-assessment", "name": "Qualified assessment", "description": "Record an assessor's conclusion, rationale, and whether it concerns a particular report, transmission route, or broader practice.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who accepted, qualified, or rejected the attribution, and what reasons did they give?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Does that assessment apply to this exact witness or to a different version or broader claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disagreement-and-gaps", "name": "Disagreement and gaps", "description": "Captures competing assessments and missing evidence that constrain confident description.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-confidence", "name": "Bounded confidence", "description": "State what the inspected evidence supports and which disagreements remain unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which consulted authorities disagree, and is the disagreement about attribution, evidential method, or the content being attributed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "What additional source or assessment must be inspected before the agent can strengthen its description?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-confidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "normative-interpretation", "name": "Normative interpretation", "description": "Records the reasoning that connects an attributed example to its claimed religious significance.", "rationale": "An accepted attribution does not by itself determine what others should do or how strongly they should do it.", "layers": [ { "id": "example-to-guidance", "name": "Example to guidance", "description": "Makes the inference from reported example to normative guidance explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "normative-inference", "name": "Normative inference", "description": "Record why an interpreter treats the example as guidance and what force they assign to it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What reasoning treats this example as religious guidance rather than personal habit or a circumstance-specific act?", "kind": "definition", "id": "normative-inference-q01" }, { "text": "What normative classification does the named interpreter assign, and where is that reasoning documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "normative-inference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "related-evidence-and-readings", "name": "Related evidence and readings", "description": "Records how the interpretation handles other relevant evidence and alternative readings.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretive-reconciliation", "name": "Interpretive reconciliation", "description": "Preserve stated restrictions, reconciliations, or claims of supersession together with their evidential basis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which other scriptural passages, reports, or practices are used to explain or limit this interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interpretive-reconciliation-q01" }, { "text": "Are differing examples understood as permitted variation, contextual differences, contradiction, or supersession, and by whom?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interpretive-reconciliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-application", "name": "Situated 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competing vehicles of sunnah" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Sunnah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q234869", "note": "item 'Sunnah'" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Sunnah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Usul al-fiqh treatises of the four Sunni madhhabs and Ja'fari usul (classical juristic method, not a single issuing body)", "Egyptian Law No. 1 of 2000 and analogous personal-status codes that treat Qur'an and Sunnah as residual sources of family law (national legislatures)", "OIC Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990), Art. 24-25: rights and duties subject to the Shari'ah, which includes Sunnah (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Sunnah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Cited in Friday sermons, fatwas, and court pleadings as proof-text for ritual, family, and commercial rules", "Operationalized in hadith collections (Bukhari, Muslim, etc.) that judges, muftis, and apps 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"evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Sunnah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Fabrication and weak isnads treated as binding sunnah", "Conflation of legally binding sunnah with private prophetic habit", "Sectarian instrumentalization (Sunni/Shia, Salafi/Sufi) of the same reports", "Literal application of historically situated practice to modern medicine, warfare, or gender without usul filters" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Sunnah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Maliki West Africa and Maghreb: 'amal of Medina can outweigh isolated hadith as the sunnah", "Shafi'i Southeast Asia: written hadith collections privileged over local custom", "Twelver Shia: sunnah includes the Imams' practice, not only the Prophet's", "Salafi/Wahhabi contexts: sunnah as reconstructed from sahih texts against later madhhab practice" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Sunnah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Hadith", "difference": "Hadith is the textual report; sunnah is the 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They coincide only when custom is shown to continue Medinan or prophetic practice." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Sunnah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Sunnah primarily as normative example, transmitted practice, a juristic classification, or all these senses within one model?", "Which traditions must the model represent, and how does each delimit the exemplars and evidence authoritative for Sunnah?", "How should continuity of communal practice be assessed when its evidential role differs from that of individually transmitted reports?", "Which tradition-specific assessment terms can be compared without implying equivalence between distinct methods?", "Where should this model hand an application question to a jurisprudence or religious-authority model rather than treating it as settled by attribution alone?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Sunnah, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a claim about Sunnah, assess its evidential and interpretive standing, and determine whether it may be described, compared, or applied within an explicitly identified tradition.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 93 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Sunnah, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 93 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Sunnah from another, and a Sunnah from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Sunnah sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Sunnah from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Sunnah passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Sunnah between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Sunnah, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Sunnah is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a Sunnah says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a Sunnah contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Sunnah and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What Sunnah studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does Sunnah take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does Sunnah establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where Sunnah is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark Sunnah as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place Sunnah, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Sunnah came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Sunnah and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Sunnah is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Sunnah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Sunnah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Sunnah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }