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As Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah,

First of all I want to thank everyone for their comments and their good akhlaq. Many students of knowledge forget the importance of good akhlaq. As long as this conversation stays civil, I am more than willing to discuss these issues. I especially want to thank Colonel_Hardstone and al-Faruqi for their good manners.

Now, this is a class of HANBALI Fiqh taught by a HANBALI teacher based on a HANBALI text (al-Umdah). Hence I did not post this thread under Hanafi or comparative fiqh sections, rather I clearly stated it is Hanbali Fiqh. So how can this is ghayr-Muqalid?

I think people have confused the issue of Daleel, that as soon as they see dalaa'il being discussed or tarjih of a maddhab they assume it to be ghayr-muqalideen. Ghayr-Muqalideen do NOT have a copy right on discussing daleel and tarjih.

Let me give you some examples:

In the famous Hanafi book of Fiqh

فتح القدير
كمال الدين بن عبدالواحد (ابن الهمام)

It states:


قال ( ويعتمد بيده اليمنى على اليسرى تحت السرة ) لقوله عليه الصلاة والسلام { إن من السنة وضع اليمين على الشمال تحت السرة } وهو حجة على مالك رحمه الله في الإرسال ، وعلى الشافعي رحمه الله في الوضع على الصدر ، ولأن الوضع تحت السرة أقرب إلى التعظيم وهو المقصود ، ثم الاعتماد سنة القيام عند أبي حنيفة وأبي يوسف رحمهما الله حتى لا يرسل حالة الثناء .

والأصل أن كل قيام فيه ذكر مسنون يعتمد فيه وما لا فلا هو الصحيح ، فيعتمد في حالة القنوت وصلاة الجنازة ، ويرسل في القومة وبين تكبيرات [ ص: 288 ] الأعياد

Here when the author says this hadith is a Hujjah on Imaam Malik, why didn't he explain the issue from Maliki usool? Or when he says it is a Hujjah on Imaam Shafi'. Does this mean that the great Hanafi scholar and this work of Hanafi fiqh was ghayr-Muqalid?

No, akhi, this is they way of those who teach from one maddhab. They explain their proofs and their tarjih according to the usool of their maddhab. I do NOT claim to know the usool of the Ahnaf or Shawafi or Malikiyyah this is why I am not teaching a class in those maddhabs.

If you would like to benefit from these lessons and understand the Hanbali maddhab, please feel free to read the lessons. If you want to learn Hanafi Fiqh, or Shafa'i Fiqh or Maliki Fiqh then I suggest you contact a qualified teacher from that maddhab.

And Allah is the source of all knowledge and all good.

And Allah knows best.

The one in need of the mercy of Allah

Uthman Ibn Farooq