Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Does One Have to Stick to One Madhhab Only

Does one have to stick to one school

of Islamic law?

Can one take opinions of 1 madhab

and some from another?

In itself this is permissible.

Our obligation is that we follow

reliable qualified

scholarship

on everything

that we do that is our obligation.

And in that regards if we do that

we have fulfilled

our duty. So if someone prays as a

Hanafi but gets married as a Shafi'i

and

follows the fiqh of halal and haram according

to the Maliki school this would be fine.

However, this can be a recipe for confusion

and it can also be a recipe for

slacking off in deen, like a fatwa shopping

etcetera.

So the recommendation is 1 learn 1 madhab

and then focus on excellence in action. Right?

And one stick to it and that gives

us a standard of taqwa.

But

if there's a need or a benefit or

simply one finds something difficult, it is not

impermissible to follow another school as long as

one does so on the basis of knowledge,

not merely on the basis of hearsay. A

lot of people say, oh I heard the

Maliki's allow this and oh some people allow

combining

prayers etcetera. That's not following deen, that is

more whimsical,

religiosity

and that's not conducive

to

being firm footed in one's Deen.

We

have many answers on seekers

related to

this notion of

following a Madhab and we have a reader

on it that will give you further

details.