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**22CreessGah** · 01-08-2012, 06:09 AM

If so then you should state Shi'a where your profile asks for "Madhhab;" even though Shi'a is not a madhab but a religion of its own.

Ignore these Shi'a. You'll find many people who come on this forum and have one of the four madhahib as their madhhab in their profile but they turn out to be Shi'a. These Shi'a mostly show up to provide some sort of "Sunni" proof for their kufr beliefs.

Also, following a madhhab is EXTREMELY important for us. The situation the sister described, where a person picks and chooses a part of the madhhab based on their own desires - that is haraam according to all scholars. If a person is a non-Hanafi and deliberately delays his Dhuhr salah so that it is 'Asr time in their madhhab but still Dhuhr in the Hanafi madhhab - that person has sinned.

Why follow a madhhab? This question has been asked and answered a countless number of times on these forums. The simplest answer I can give is by analogy: if you're ill, do you diagnose yourself, make your own treatment, and administer it yourself? Or do you go see a physician who has studied an existing corpus of medicine under other physicians?

Also, to those that follow "Qur'an and hadeeth" only, know that the madhahib were formed before the hadeeth collections of Imam Bukhari

and Imam Muslim

were produced and popularized. The Hanafi madhhab, as an example, existed during the time of the sahaba

. Imam Abu Hanifa

saw how the sahaba

prayed and he prayed in their presence as well. If he was doing anything remotely different from how Rasoolullah

prayed, he would have been rebuked. Another example is Imam Malik

, whose madhhab is based on the a'maal (actions) from Madinah Munawwarah. Since the last place Rasoolullah

resided was in Madinah and the last place he held counsel with the sahaba

was in Madinah, it makes sense that the people of Madinah would be close to the sunnah.

So as you can see, the approaches are different, but the goal is the same. The best option is to follow the madhhab that everyone around you follows because of ease of accessibility to both knowledge and observable practice.

01-08-2012, 06:09 AM	#5
22CreessGah Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 447 Senior Member	If so then you should state Shi'a where your profile asks for "Madhhab;" even though Shi'a is not a madhab but a religion of its own. Ignore these Shi'a. You'll find many people who come on this forum and have one of the four madhahib as their madhhab in their profile but they turn out to be Shi'a. These Shi'a mostly show up to provide some sort of "Sunni" proof for their kufr beliefs. Also, following a madhhab is EXTREMELY important for us. The situation the sister described, where a person picks and chooses a part of the madhhab based on their own desires - that is haraam according to all scholars. If a person is a non-Hanafi and deliberately delays his Dhuhr salah so that it is 'Asr time in their madhhab but still Dhuhr in the Hanafi madhhab - that person has sinned. Why follow a madhhab? This question has been asked and answered a countless number of times on these forums. The simplest answer I can give is by analogy: if you're ill, do you diagnose yourself, make your own treatment, and administer it yourself? Or do you go see a physician who has studied an existing corpus of medicine under other physicians? Also, to those that follow "Qur'an and hadeeth" only, know that the madhahib were formed before the hadeeth collections of Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim were produced and popularized. The Hanafi madhhab, as an example, existed during the time of the sahaba . Imam Abu Hanifa saw how the sahaba prayed and he prayed in their presence as well. If he was doing anything remotely different from how Rasoolullah prayed, he would have been rebuked. Another example is Imam Malik , whose madhhab is based on the a'maal (actions) from Madinah Munawwarah. Since the last place Rasoolullah resided was in Madinah and the last place he held counsel with the sahaba was in Madinah, it makes sense that the people of Madinah would be close to the sunnah. So as you can see, the approaches are different, but the goal is the same. The best option is to follow the madhhab that everyone around you follows because of ease of accessibility to both knowledge and observable practice.
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