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