Ahl-i Hadith or Ahl-e-Hadith (, , people of hadith) is a religious movement that emerged in Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century from the teachings of Syed Nazeer Husain and Siddiq Hasan Khan. The movement professes to hold the same views as the early generations of Islam, regarding the Quran, sunnah, and hadith as the sole sources of religious authority and opposing everything introduced in Islam after the earliest times. In particular, they reject taqlid (following legal precedent) and favour ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) based on the scriptures. The terms Salafi and Ahl-i Hadith are often used interchangeably, the movement shares doctrinal tendencies with the Hanbali school prevalent in the Arabian Peninsula, and many of its members have identified themselves with the Zahiri school of thought.