The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an

Shaykh 'Ali al-Khafif holds the Qur'an the root and foundation, the Sunna subordinate and explanatory, never contradicting it: it details the mujmal — the forms of prayer, zakat, hajj; it qualifies the absolute — bequests limited to non-heirs; it narrows the general — milk-kinship and the aunt/niece excluded from the permitted; and it clarifies the obscure ¹². The Qur'an is certain in transmission whole and detailed; the Sunna is probable in detail, so no single hadith is certainly the Prophet ﷺ's unless mutawatir ³. After the Prophet's death the Companions sought rulings in the Book first, then the Sunna.