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==The Sunni Perspective== | ==The Sunni Perspective== | ||
Some researchers suggest that, unlike in Shiite accounts where the ''Book of Jafr'' and ''al-Jami'a'' and their contents are clearly distinguished, there is no such distinction in Sunni reports. In some Sunni accounts where the two books are differentiated, their contents are said to be identical. Al-Sayyid Mir Sharif al-Jurjani, a Hanafi scholar of the eighth century | Some researchers suggest that, unlike in Shiite accounts where the ''Book of [[Jafr]]'' and ''al-Jami'a'' and their contents are clearly distinguished, there is no such distinction in [[Sunni]] reports. In some Sunni accounts where the two books are differentiated, their contents are said to be identical. [[Al-Sayyid Mir Sharif al-Jurjani]], a Hanafi scholar of the eighth/fourteenth century, believes that al-Jami'a was written using an encoded method based on the science of letters ('ilm al-huruf). Haji Khalifa identifies the ''Book of Jafr'' as pertaining to the Tablet of Predestination (qada), and ''al-Jami'a'' to the Tablet of Fate (qadar). | ||
==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||