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**Fgunehjf** · 07-06-2011, 08:31 PM

a person who calls a sunnah barbaric has possibly lost their imaan. discussions on mathaahib are then irrelevant.

"Very soon a time of such mischief will come when in the morning a person will be a believer and in the evening he will be a kaafir, except for that person whom Allah Ta'aala will save on account of knowledge." (Daramy)
In this Hadeeth the phrase appears: "on account of knowledge." This can only mean one thing; viz, that the person be acquainted with the limits of kufr and Imaan (faith). It means that he knows what those requirements are which makes a person a Muslim and what makes him a kaafir. (Al-Eti'daal)

As far as I am aware and the school of Imam Malik agrees there is no basis for it in Qur'an, and as such it is only regarded as Sunnah in the Maliki madhab, yet compulsory in the Shafi'i madhab.

Also, on a personal note I find it barbaric. However the point of this thread is not to discuss circumcision and I won't further. I am merely looking to know if in the opinion of those reading this thread I have legitimate reasons for changing madhab. One further point however, it should be noted that circumcision is not my only problem with the Shafi'i madhab.

07-06-2011, 08:31 PM	#11
Fgunehjf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	a person who calls a sunnah barbaric has possibly lost their imaan. discussions on mathaahib are then irrelevant. "Very soon a time of such mischief will come when in the morning a person will be a believer and in the evening he will be a kaafir, except for that person whom Allah Ta'aala will save on account of knowledge." (Daramy) In this Hadeeth the phrase appears: "on account of knowledge." This can only mean one thing; viz, that the person be acquainted with the limits of kufr and Imaan (faith). It means that he knows what those requirements are which makes a person a Muslim and what makes him a kaafir. (Al-Eti'daal) As far as I am aware and the school of Imam Malik agrees there is no basis for it in Qur'an, and as such it is only regarded as Sunnah in the Maliki madhab, yet compulsory in the Shafi'i madhab. Also, on a personal note I find it barbaric. However the point of this thread is not to discuss circumcision and I won't further. I am merely looking to know if in the opinion of those reading this thread I have legitimate reasons for changing madhab. One further point however, it should be noted that circumcision is not my only problem with the Shafi'i madhab.
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