Shadee Elmasry – Why Do Madhabs Exist

scholars themselves differed within the realm of Hadith on what

was the final say of the prophets of Allah when they differed on

ranking Hadith. Abu Hanifa famously would judge by the action

of the narrator, rep more than his words. So if a narrator said

something, but he acted differently than we must assume he

said it as an exception, not as the norm because he practiced

differently. That's the third reason that methods exist. They

differed on Hadith itself,

regarding when he says something to say, and then this is the

Sunnah, that's all so he's using his opinion. And you may have

heard of another scholar who's early from the earlier times or

after him that says, No, there is a stronger had eaten this, or this

hadith is an exception, or this hadith was abrogated, or I fought

a fight a stronger proof is the action of this narrator or the

action of a more seniors competitive