[IdomeoreTew]

yeah, the haba'ib are shafi'is . . . i'm not from the haba'ib, nor do I reside in hadramawt

I notice you're a shafi'i too, ya tripoly! How did you go about learning your madh-hab, or did you inherit it from your parents?

was-salam

Salam Aleykum,

Well normally when I decided to take religion more seriously me and my brother we decided to go and buy a book of Fiqh, the obvious choice was Hanafi since Tripoli is full of Hanafis, we went to a famous library in the souq and the owner was a pretty knowledgeable Salafi Sheikh, sadly the book was sold out and the man recommended the Shafi'i book instead, I remember we asked if we could get both later but he advised to stick to one madhab only otherwise we'll end up confused... so yea hehe that's about it and that's like ten years ago, I couldn't understand the eloquent Arabic in the books at the time since my Arabic was pretty bad so my bro read them and I made Taqleed of him

I pray according to the Shafi'i but I don't follow it 100% all the time, I don't know about the others but Shafi'i does follow the Hadiths pretty closely however sometimes I take Fatwas from Salafi/Hanbali scholars whom I deem very trustworthy and knowledgeable and I do compare opinions at times... Shafi'i with Salafi tendencies or whatever you wanna call it