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This is what gets confusing. There are other members of the Al Kauthar teaching crew who seem to present themselves also as Hanafi among us, but then project themselves as Salafis among them. I think this dual-personality is more current among those of the Al Kauthar crew who happen to come from Gujarati-Deobandi communities. Any thoughts on this?

i don't know im not part of the gujarati deobandi community...but i do recall salafis on a salafi forum being very annoyed about some course that he did where he told everyone he is a hanafi

but i think they the type of 'hanafis' that are against taqlid shakhsi....and is what they promote...which is kinda irresponsible as they are preaching this to students who have no basic knowledge of fiqh from what i have seen of the students of al kauthar some of them don't even seem to understand what a madhab is