Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Why Follow A Madhab Instead Of Sahih Hadith
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The speakers discuss the issue of following certain opinions and the need for consistency in opinions. They also discuss the importance of following a specific method for finding a solution to a problem. They mention that certain individuals may require multiple rounds of research to find a solution.
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channel. Just a few questions that we have that the brothers have
been requesting and asking, especially when it comes to the
issue of tech lead. Many brothers say that why is it that we only
have to follow one particular Imam, when we can just take the
authentic opinion from amongst the Imams? And just follow that?
The issue in following the school is that
if you, number one to determine what is an authentic opinion
within a school, is what's going to be difficult for most people to
do. How do you determine what is authentic, and what is not
authentic? Each month, and the scholars of each school they
actually consider whatever they believe to be the most authentic
opinion in something. So, you know, for a common person to be
able to understand what is the most authentic opinion, it
requires scholarship, and people who have that level of
scholarship. And then obviously, they
have their own HD HUD that they can that they can follow.
So
I think what we need to
look at here is that for a normal person to just pick and choose
from whatever they want, it's highly problematic. And the reason
why it's problematic is because there's two issues. Number one,
there's the issue of
taking whatever you you're knifes feels to be the easiest. So then
you start looking for the simplest things. And many without would
argue that that's not what we're looking for. We're looking for
authenticity. Now the thing is that how do you determine
authenticity, somebody has to
tell you, or you have to do research to back your stand that
this particular aspect is authentic, it may just be that you
have been exposed to Hadith that support a particular opinion,
maybe the Shafi opinion or maybe the Halevi opinion in a particular
in a particular issue. But you haven't seen the de Lille for the
others. So he actually requires a lot of actually requires a lot of
research, which most people aren't able to do. Thirdly, one of the
other problems with following whatever, as such, you know,
whatever you feel like one of the problems. The third problem with
that, is that you are then if it's not based on evidence, which
requires research, if it's not based on evidence, then it would
actually require you to just choose whatever you want. The
problem there is that it would it would consider it would cause you
to be following different different opinions based on
different methodologies. So for instance,
when it comes to the Hanafi school, and the Hanafi, is they
say that it's okay to or rather they say that touching a woman
does not break your window.
As long as there's no emission, it doesn't break your window, whereas
the Shafi is they say that it does break your window, while the
Hanafi is in another issue say that
bleeding does break you do while as the Shafi say that it doesn't
break your window, if somebody takes the opinion of the Hanafis
in one thing, and the shaft is another thing in the sense that he
reckons that my will do is not broken when I've touched my wife
and my will do is also not broken when I've made a sorry if I've
bled then he is taking the two opinions too liberal opinions from
two different Imams. The problem is the problem with that is that
he is taking the conclusions of two different sets of methodology.
Because the methodology that was used by Imam Abu Hanifa and the
Hanafi aroma imams in general, to reach the conclusion that bleeding
does break your will to
bleeding when the blood flows from its place does break your window
while touching a woman doesn't. They use a particular methodology
to arrive at a conclusion. While the Shafi is using their own
unique methodology, Which Imam Shafi formulated based on his
understanding of the Quran, sunnah, he came to the absolute
opposite conclusions in both of these issues. Now, if you're going
to take one opinion from here one opinion from there, you are
literally taking the conclusions of two different sets of
methodology. And that is, I mean, absolutely absurd to do that,
because, you know, whatever you do, it has to be consistent. It
has to be according to a single methodology. So I would believe
that that's that would be you can say a technical problem, a
technical reason for not being able to just pick and choose.
That's basically when we're talking about free pick and
choosing. There is certain adopt for when a person can move over
from one month up to another one school to another. And there are
certain requirements for that. Some have
Your other mouth the opinion that if there is a absolute need, then
it is permissible to you know take from another school, but then what
they do qualify that with is they say that you have to then observe
all of the different rulings according to So, if you were to
take the Shafi opinion for example, on combining the prayers,
then you will have to then consider your window broken if you
touch to your wife for men, and vice versa for women for instance.
So, you would then have to observe all of the flick of Shafi
according or pertaining to that particular issue, when you took
from the Shafi school this is according to some Hanafi aromas,
or ADAMA, whereas other rhythm, they are the Hanafi aroma, they,
especially those of the subcontinent, they consider it,
absolutely, you know, that they are a lot more strict in not
allowing individuals to just go across multiple lines, because it
obviously opens the door to a lot of pick and choosing eventually,
what they say is that when you do take from another month, it needs
to be a group effort to do that. So, for example, if there is an
issue in the Hanafi school, which is really difficult for the
community in general, and there is another opinion within the Hanafi
school or in another school, then if Earlimart get together and they
determined that this is a valid reason for coming out of this
school, then it may be you know that then they would deem that to
be okay to follow another opinion of another school because you have
to realize here that we're talking about a
a formulated methodology, results of that methodology, a whole fixed
system, entire school that has come, you know, for this many
centuries in order to go against that, that scholarship. If you
just did that arbitrarily. You'd be completely disregarding all of
these great scholars of the past and clearly I mean, these great
scholars of the past could not have been so naive to have just
followed something that they would not consider strong or whatever.
So yeah, hopefully that should give some explanation Inshallah,
of this