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I think you will find the following beneficial. Shaykh Musa Furber (Hanbali) wrote regarding "The Proper Way Of Approaching Other Madhhabs", quoting the excellent advise on this by Sh. Afifi al-Akiti (Shafii).

Sh. Musa:

http://www.hanbali.org/hanbali_index...20madhhabs.php

While the bulk of the following article concerns Shafi`i fiqh, the first few pages of the article concerns the proper way of approaching other madhhabs, and the husn al-zann we should have when people slip.

Please note that I supplied the above title. The article's original title appears below.

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Tahqiq Qira’at al-Fatiha min Tabyin Aqwal al-Qadima (by Sh. Afifi):


http://www.livingislam.org/maa/tqft_e.html


...However, before going into the details of the above simple and straightforward fiqhi one-line answer to your question... I would like to take the opportunity here to address a number of general concerns relating to the background of your question, particularly in relation to what I had read of your narration of what the Hanafi author wrote on behalf of our Madhhab. Those who want to go straight to the fiqhi material should skip the following eight paragraphs.

As a matter of rule, common sense and adab, one should not rely on particular fiqhi judgements or opinions given or narrated by scholars who are not of the same school. This is especially so, in matters of furu‘, because the immense detail of the Shari‘a is such that a non-specialist (and even if someone is trained as a Shafi‘i or has read one or two Shafi‘i texts but because of one’s immense knowledge and training in another school decides to adopt that other school for one’s ‘amal, which means that in effect, that person will have no practical and personal experience of being even a Shafi‘i ‘awwamm) will end up getting lost and drowned by the many conflicting views and opinions that are recorded in our books of Fiqh. It is for this reason that we need living teachers to guide us through this great variety of opinions...