Good English Books on Explaining Madhabs

[maaz]

cool, i can be the first thread!! I pray Allah accepts the efforts of the ppl involved in this forum and muslims that visit to derive or provide benefit.

anyways, some awesome books would include:


General:

http://www.whitethreadpress.com/publications/differences_imams.htm

Hanafi:

http://www.whitethreadpress.com/publications/fiqh_imam.htm

http://www.whitethreadpress.com/publications/absolute_essentials.htm

http://www.amalpress.com/index.php?l_dis=publications&det=full&id=14

Shafi:

http://onlineislamicstore.com/b2439.html

[daisily]

Here is another good book if you want to do a little research on the madhabs. THE FOUR IMAMS Their Lives, Works and their Schools of thought; by Muhammad Abu Zahra. It’s published by:
http://www.daraltaqwa.com for those of you in the UK. And in the US you can get it from:
http://store.yahoo.com/islamicbookstore-com/b6806.html click this link and you can see the table of contents.

Because it is relevant to the topic of this forum I will give you this from the book jacket.

THE FOUR IMAMS
This book is a compilation of four books which deal with the lives and works of the four imams who founded the four great canonical schools of thoughts of Islamic fiqh. The book was originally written in Arabic by the great Egyptian scholar and theologian Muhammad Abu Zahra and is presented in English for the first time.

In this book there is a comprehensive, in depth analysis of the four Sunni madhabs and their founders, giving details of their biography and the methods they used in reaching their legal conclusions. This is particularly important in the world today when many thousands of Muslims find themselves in a situation where there is not enough knowledge therefore no traditional allegiance to a particular madhab. As a result of this ignorance there is also a great deal of futile disagreements amongst the Muslims. This work therefore has been long overdue in the English language and will be a milestone in bridging the gap amongst the Muslims and uniting them. It makes a stimulating and enriching read for all who are interested in deepening their knowledge of Islam.

IMAM MALIK
Imam Malik was the first of the four great imams and is the founder of the Maliki school of thought. He lived his whole life in Madina where much of the Quran was revealed and most of the legal practices of Islam established. He spent his life studying, recording and clarifying the legal parameters and precedents which was passed down to him by the first two generations of Muslims who were the direct inheritors of the perfected form if Islam left by the Prophet.
This book not only gives the biographical details of the Imam’s life but also puts it in its historical context and most importantly, shows us the methods he used in reaching his legal conclusions which played a vital part in preserving exactly the legacy of the pure Divine Guidance left by the Prophet and his companions.

IMAM AL SHAFI
Imam Shafi is the founder of the Shafe’i school of thought. He was remarkable in that he resolved the differences of opinion that arose in the still evolving Muslim community and brought them together in the most outstanding legal system in the whole history of mankind.
This book looks at his life and traces the development of his thought. It talks of his teachers and his followers and show how the system he devised grew out of the intellectual and political currents of his time. It also gives an in depth historical analysis of the various movements and sects which formed the background to the Islamic world in which he lived.

IMAM ABU HANIFA
Imam Abu Hanifa died in 150AH/767CE. He met the companions of the Prophet and is counted amongst the Tabi’un (followers). He is renowned for his piercing intellect as a faqih, his scrupulousness, integrity of character and his resoluteness in the face of oppression.
His school is historically associated with the Abbasid and Ottoman Khalifates and the Moghul rule in India and is the most widely followed school of thought. This makes his study particularly important for the English speaking readers since it gives them an in depth appreciation of the school followed by the majority of the Muslims of the world.

IMAM AHMAD IBN HANBAL
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal is chronologically the last of the four imams and lived just after the first three generations of exemplary Muslims, thus confronting a slightly different situation from that faced by his three predecessors.
This necessitated a fresh different approach to the legal issues arising out of the situation of the rapidly expanding urban development and imperial government which had started to engulf much of the Muslim community. The book shows how Imam Ahmad through is incredible personal integrity and scrupulous adherence to sound tradition was able to chart a course through the stormy period in which he lived. His example provided his followers with the legal bases of what later became the Hanbali madhab.

[akhi_islam]

Assalamu alaikum
Above it is written
"IMAM MALIK
Imam Malik was the first of the four great imams..."
I thought that is was Imam Hanafi ?? in the order of Imam Hanafi >>Imam Malik>>Imam Shafi>>Iman Hambal Can someone clarify for me? JazakAllah.

[daisily]

Assalamu alaikum
Above it is written
"IMAM MALIK
Imam Malik was the first of the four great imams..."
I thought that is was Imam Hanafi ?? in the order of Imam Hanafi >>Imam Malik>>Imam Shafi>>Iman Hambal Can someone clarify for me? JazakAllah.

Chronologically Abu Hanifa (rahmatullah alahi) comes first. He was born at an earlier date. Us Hanafi’s like to put him first! However I have seen Imam Malik (rahmatullah alahi) sometimes mentioned first. Perhaps there can be some argument for the Malaki school being more developed earlier as the Hanifi school was more refined by Imam Abu Hanifa’s students later. Or that the Muwutta was the first hadith/fiqh book and incidentally if the Caliph had his way it would have been the only madhab. However the book THE FOUR IMAMS was first published in Arabic in four volumes. For the English translation it was combined into one book. The book on Imam Malik was put in as the first chapter. It is chronologically more sound that way. First you get the background of Imam Malik in Medina. Then you get the situation in Iraq of Imam Abu Hanifa. Iraq was more diverse with the different sects and all. Both Imams were contemporaries, much was happening at the same time. I would not read too much into saying which one was the FIRST Great Imam. They were all great! Why? Because Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala loved them. When Allah loves someone He gives them knowledge of Deen. And how much knowledge those men had!! Also when you lead someone to do something good (for the sake of Allah); when they do it they are rewarded for it and you also get a reward. May Allah reward Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Shafi and Imam Hanbal for their work in preserving the Deen and making it easy for us to follow.

[akhi_islam]

Ameen to your duas!
JazakAllah khair for the information

[nik61]

Dear brothers/sisters

Just to pick something from the pages of the blessed book al-Maktubat of Imam Rabbani.
Imam Rabbani Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi an-Naqshabandi stated that al-Imam al-Mahdi will have his own madhhab, and also is the case of Sayyiduna Isa al-Masih.
Could someone shed more light on the matter? ;)

[majhul]

Shaykh Ahmed Sirhindi actually said that Imam Mahdi will be a Hanafi. This I heard from Maulana Wali Razi (brother of Mufti Taqi Usmani), who is a man of knowledge.

[br_syed]

cool, i can be the first thread!! I pray Allah accepts the efforts of the ppl involved in this forum and muslims that visit to derive or provide benefit.

Assalamulaikum

I just saw this thread bumped. The first ever thread.
Good bit of Sunniforum History Trivia :cheesygri

Walaikum salaam

[mospike]

Shaykh Ahmed Sirhindi actually said that Imam Mahdi will be a Hanafi. This I heard from Maulana Wali Razi (brother of Mufti Taqi Usmani), who is a man of knowledge.


I also read in a Kitaab called Taqleed made easy found here www.alislam.co.za

That Ml Thanvi said that Isa (as) and Mahdi (ra) will be Hanafi, this he experinced through Kashf

[sozkaynak]

Do you now any booklet about aulias 's life?

[laughinglion]

Chronologically Abu Hanifa (rahmatullah alahi) comes first. He was born at an earlier date. Us Hanafi’s like to put him first! However I have seen Imam Malik (rahmatullah alahi) sometimes mentioned first. Perhaps there can be some argument for the Malaki school being more developed earlier as the Hanifi school was more refined by Imam Abu Hanifa’s students later. Or that the Muwutta was the first hadith/fiqh book and incidentally if the Caliph had his way it would have been the only madhab. However the book THE FOUR IMAMS was first published in Arabic in four volumes. For the English translation it was combined into one book. The book on Imam Malik was put in as the first chapter. It is chronologically more sound that way. First you get the background of Imam Malik in Medina. Then you get the situation in Iraq of Imam Abu Hanifa. Iraq was more diverse with the different sects and all. Both Imams were contemporaries, much was happening at the same time. I would not read too much into saying which one was the FIRST Great Imam. They were all great! Why? Because Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala loved them. When Allah loves someone He gives them knowledge of Deen. And how much knowledge those men had!! Also when you lead someone to do something good (for the sake of Allah); when they do it they are rewarded for it and you also get a reward. May Allah reward Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Shafi and Imam Hanbal for their work in preserving the Deen and making it easy for us to follow.

:salam:

That about covers it Sis! Imam Abu Hanifah :anhu: was the elder of the two and was also [in most peoples estimation] tab' tabi'een. Maliki :anhu: was teaching earlier, thus it may be correct to say "his" school was more developed.

http://bewley.virtualave.net/Root.html

With peace

[ahamed_sharif]

Assalamu alaykum

Normally we use Radiallahu anhu for Sahaba ikraam only. Why is that our brother has used Radiallahu anhu for Imam Abu haneefa Rahmatullahi alyha and Imam Malik Rahmatullahi alayh.

shukran

[smartchocolate]

that is excellent

[Umm_Zahra]

Assalamualaykum warahmatullah

Jazaka'Allah khair for the links, very useful!
Ameen to the duaa.

Wassalam

[Sunni Muslim]

:salam:

That about covers it Sis! Imam Abu Hanifah :anhu: was the elder of the two and was also [in most peoples estimation] tab' tabi'een. Maliki :anhu: was teaching earlier, thus it may be correct to say "his" school was more developed.

http://bewley.virtualave.net/Root.html

With peace


Wa alaikum salam

Rather, in the view of the majority of Ulama, Imam Abu Hanifa was from the Tabi'in not Taba Tabi'in (like Imam Malik) - for he saw Anas ibn Malik (ra). The Hanafi school was more developed than the Maliki and the Caliph Harun Rashid patronised it with the appointmenet of Imam Abu Yusuf as the first Qadi al-Qudat (Chief Judge of Judges) in Islamic History.

The writings of Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam al-Shaybani bear witness to the claim that the Hanafi school was more developed than Imam Malik's. Imam al-Shaybani studied al-Muwatta with Imam Malik for 3 years and still he advanced the school of Imam Abu Hanifa and strengthened it further. See his recension of the Muwatta known popularly as Muwatta Imam Muhammad for what is being referred to.


Wassalam

[MRahman]

Assalamu alaykum

Normally we use Radiallahu anhu for Sahaba ikraam only. Why is that our brother has used Radiallahu anhu for Imam Abu haneefa Rahmatullahi alyha and Imam Malik Rahmatullahi alayh.

shukran


It is also permissible/correct to use رضي الله عنه for the believers, specially the god fearing and close to Allah, as Allah
Himself uses it in the Quran, where in surah 98 verse 08, Allah say:

جَزَاؤُهُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّاتُ عَدْنٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَدًا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ ذَلِكَ لِمَنْ خَشِيَ رَبَّهُ

"Their reward is with Allah: Gardens of Eternity, beneath which rivers flow; they will dwell therein for ever; Allah well pleased with them, and they with Him: all this for such as fear their Lord and Cherisher. "

[Aqeedah Tahawiyah]

as salamu alaykum

I suggest Fiqh Al-Imam Key Proofs In Hanafi Fiqh for those who want to see the proofs of the position of the ahnaf on salah etc. It is by Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf. This book is very good he goes in detail proving the hanafi position and refuting the salafi slanders against the ahnaf. He shows how raf alyadayn is not fard etc just like Imam abu jaffar tahawi did long ago.

The first part of book shows the proofs for making taqlid and shows the misunderstanding about taqlid. Second part has sections on salah according to hanafi school of thought with proofs. All the rulings are supported with evidentiary proofs from qur'an and sunnah.

Abdur Rahman ibn yusuf has studied in England, india, south africa, and syria under a number of traditional scholars. He received formal authorizations ijazah from his teachers in the major islamic sciences. Including a specialization in the science of answering legal questions ifta. He presently serves as an Imam at a sourthern California masjid and is working on several academic and scholarly publications.

[StudentofIslam]

There is a nice book by Mufti Taqi Usmani (DB) called The Legal Status of Following a Madhab which u can buy from any good bookstore :

http://www.azharacademy.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1587

Also:

Understanding the Four Madhabs By Abdul Hakim Murad

http://www.azharacademy.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=106

and Also on the Four Imaams of Fiqh there are some really good books including:

Ashraf's Advice Upon the Four Great Imams

and

The Four Imams: Their lives, works and their Schools of Thought By Imaam Abu Zahra

[someone]

Question 1 (http://www.cometoislam.com/fiqh/question1.htm)

Question 2 (http://www.cometoislam.com/fiqh/question2.htm)

The Legal Status of Following a Madhab (http://www.cometoislam.com/fiqh/legal/main.htm)

[MNK-SH]

Assalam U 'Alaikum

I am looking for any text on the details of the Methodology of the four Fiqhs. Does any one have any recommendations?

Ma' Assalama

[StudentofIslam]

The Famous Hanafi book on Prinicples of Fiqh, known as Usool as Shashi is soon to be Published by TurathPublishing, for more information please keep an eye out on their website, The book is really good in explaining the Methodology adopted by the Imaams in Fiqh, from the four main areas; Quran, Sunnah, Ijmaa and Qiyaas.

[StudentofIslam]

:salam: The Turath Website is undergoing some updating, a list of the books that are forthcoming is available from the following link
TurathPublishing (http://www.turathpublishing.com/index.php/base/All%20Our%20Books)

[Islam=Peace]

Salaam,

Who exactly are these 4 imams?

[MohammadMufti]

Imams Ahmed ibn Hanbal, Abu Hanifa, Malik and Shafi'i (rahimullah).

[Isa Al-Sadiq]

Salaam,

Who exactly are these 4 imams?

Assalaamu Alaikum

Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Malik atleast were contemporaries with Al-Imam Ja'far al-Saadiq - May Allah be well pleased with them all. They also studied under him a bit, especially Abu Hanifa who had relations with him aswell as he had relations with his uncle Imam Zayd radhiallahu anhu. Abu Hanifa also met Al-Imam Al-Baqir alaihis salaam and debated and learned.

Was Salaam

[Moabubaker]

:salam:

The 4 main Imaams of the Ahlas Sunnah Wal Jama'ah sect are:

1) Imam Abu Hanifa
2) Imam Malik Ibn Anas
3) Imam Shafi'i
4) Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

:ws:

[MNK-SH]

Assalam U 'Alaikum

With Adab, I would like to highlight that the 4 schools of thought are not Sects at all. These are four different Schools of Fiqh in Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'at.

Ma' Assalama

[Uzzy]

:salam:

The 4 main Imaams of the Ahlas Sunnah Wal Jama'ah sect are:

1) Imam Abu Hanifa
2) Imam Malik Ibn Anas
3) Imam Shafi'i
4) Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

:ws:

i believe you are correct

[Shakila Bi]

Assalam U 'Alaikum

With Adab, I would like to highlight that the 4 schools of thought are not Sects at all. These are four different Schools of Fiqh in Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'at.

Ma' Assalama
Could someone please shed some light on where bralvism comes in? does it only fall under the hanafi school of thought or is it another sect altogether?

Please exuse my ignorence as my intention is not to cause any offence.

[loveProphet]

Could someone please shed some light on where bralvism comes in? does it only fall under the hanafi school of thought or is it another sect altogether?

Please exuse my ignorence as my intention is not to cause any offence.
In the Hanafi madhab they fall into

However they are Maturidis in Aqidah, the exact same as Deobandis.

[Shakila Bi]

Im sorry but I dont quite understand your reply.

Im not fluently aware of the nature of deobandies or baralvies.

I have recently try to obtain some basic clarification on what the true definitions are but the more i query it the more puzzled I am as its very conflicting and there is no consistancy whats so ever.

[Paradise One]

Salamu Alaikum,


http://www.cometoislam.com/fiqh/legal/main.htm

^Book by Mufti Taqi Usmani on following a Madhab.
Check out pages 88-89 for an interesting reference to Sheikh Ibn Taymiyya.



masalam.
Paradise One

[poorguy]

assalamu'alaikum

For better understanding on madzhabs and the 4 Imams..I would recommend forumers to read from www.hizmetbooks.org.
A very very good and enlightening books they have. Insyaallah.

[sahih-baba]

salam

i am reading the new book by shaykh gf haddad - THE FOUR IMAMS AND THEIR SCHOOLS (http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/product_info.php?products_id=1809&osCsid=b0d)

[sahih-baba]

assalamu'alaikum

For better understanding on madzhabs and the 4 Imams..I would recommend forumers to read from www.hizmetbooks.org.
A very very good and enlightening books they have. Insyaallah.

salam
when i was reading those books, i felt like becoming hanafi :lol:
i heard there were some errors in those books and not to rely on them heavily.
i enjoyed their hardcore anti-wahhabi stance :cheesygri but that might infuriate some.

[poorguy]

salam
when i was reading those books, i felt like becoming hanafi :lol:
i heard there were some errors in those books and not to rely on them heavily.
i enjoyed their hardcore anti-wahhabi stance :cheesygri but that might infuriate some.

I love hizmetbooks very much.....
don't mind can u tell me which part of the books that contained error?
so far to my limited understanding there were none...

[sahih-baba]

I love hizmetbooks very much.....
don't mind can u tell me which part of the books that contained error?
so far to my limited understanding there were none...

i don't know what the errors are because i am not knowledgeable, but i was told by a turkish brother -neyzen- that some of the works of hanafi fiqh have some errors.
and i was told the same thing by others.

[abuhajira]

i don't know what the errors are because i am not knowledgeable, but i was told by a turkish brother -neyzen- that some of the works of hanafi fiqh have some errors.
and i was told the same thing by others.

:salam:

mostly the translation is crude as mentione by Sheikh Faraz in one of his answers.. I think his comment was for Endless Bliss..

Personally I am half-half with that website since it puts on the web whatever it finds.. I remember reading heaaaavy commentary on deobandies and jamaat tabligh.. which was enought to tell me the tashaddud in the website..

:ws:

[Saad]

That site consider Deobandis to be Wahhabis but then when refuting Maududi and Jamat e Islami, they use work written by Deobandi scholars.

[poorguy]

i don't know what the errors are because i am not knowledgeable, but i was told by a turkish brother -neyzen- that some of the works of hanafi fiqh have some errors.
and i was told the same thing by others.

I have no problem with the differences with regards to fiqh, as I am in syafi'e madzhab.I beleive the difference is Rahmah to Muslims. However, what I love most about the books in Hizmetbooks are especially with regards to aqeedah,tasawuf and ethics in Islam and the importance of following a madzhab and the perdition one my fell without holding to any madzhab. Explainations by great Islamic scholars and awliyaullah such as Imam Rabbani Al Sirhindi, Syed Abdul Hakim Arwasi, Imam Khalid al Baghdadi,Syeikh Husayn Hilmi isik and the rest are very enlightening to my heart and Alhmdulillah, it has give me a very clear understanding with regards to aqeeda of ahlusunnah wal jamaah.

With regards to some possible "error" as told by some of the readers, I believe if there is any "error" its definitely done not with the intention as to err is only human for human is a weak creature of ALLAH Azzawajalla. The perfect One is only ALLAH and may ALLAH subhana hu wa ta'ala forgive them and reward them with His endless Mercy. Ameen.

[zoi]

Have a look at this book regarding the madhabs
http://www.muslimbase.com/product_info.php?products_id=343
It talks about the differences of the Imams

[allahuakbar786]

chek bokksenta

[Saad]

Shaykh Ahmed Sirhindi actually said that Imam Mahdi will be a Hanafi. This I heard from Maulana Wali Razi (brother of Mufti Taqi Usmani), who is a man of knowledge.

Also mentioned by Mullah Ali Qari [r.h] that Hazrat Mahdi will be Hanafi but again kashaf is not a shari proof.

Allah knows best.

[sulaman]

Also mentioned by Mullah Ali Qari [r.h] that Hazrat Mahdi will be Hanafi but again kashaf is not a shari proof.

Allah knows best.

Taqleed by Hadhrat Mahdi

According to the Kasf (spiritual inspiration) of Mujjahid Alif Thani (R.A) Mahdi will follow the Mazhab of Imam Abu Hanifa (R.A),
However if someone has to say that Kasf is no Shari proof which is a valid statement, then our reply is that definitely Hadhrat Imam Mahdi will not be a Ghair Muqaleed or Ahle Hadith as is known today. It is the unanimous decision of the Ulema that,
i. Taqleed is Waajib in our times. Sayed Ahmed Thanwi (H.1233), states the group on salvation is the Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat which has been concised in the 4 Mazhabs, which are Hanafi, Maaliki, Shafi, Hanbali. And those persons in the age who are not from these Mazhabs are amongst the innovators and dwellers of the fire (not from the Ahle Sunnat). (Tahtawi Alaa Durul Muktaar, vol.4. p. 153).
ii. The Ahle - Sunnat - wal - Jamaat are Muqaleeds of any one of the four great Imams of Fiqh.
iii. Those not conforming to any one of the four Mazhabs are not amongst the Ahle - Sunnat - wal - Jamaat
When Hadhrat Mahdi comes then, one of these two possibilities will exist,
i. he will be Mujtahid -e- Mutlaq ( like the great Imams of Fiqh) or
ii. be a Muqaleed .
If he is ( i ) well and good and if he is ( ii ) then in order to be from the Ahle - Sunnat - wal Jamaat he has to be Muqaleed.
For certain he will not be from the Ahle Hadith or Ghair Muqaleed for these groups are not from the Ahle - Sunnat - wal - Jamaat .

[abuzainab]

I believe that Sh M Yakubi of Syria in a talk in UK said that Imam Mahdi will not be of any Madhab and the first people to oppose him will be those who rigidly follow a Madhab. It will be great if someone can verify this statement. There are other great scholars who have made similar statements..

[sulaman]

I believe that Sh M Yakubi of Syria in a talk in UK said that Imam Mahdi will not be of any Madhab and the first people to oppose him will be those who rigidly follow a Madhab. It will be great if someone can verify this statement. There are other great scholars who have made similar statements..
Who is Sh M Yakubi

[abuzainab]

Who is Sh M Yakubi
He is regarded as a great sheikh from Syria.
see the link
http://sheikhynotes.blogspot.com/2005/12/sheikh-muhammad-ibn-ibrahim-al-yaqubi.html

[abuzainab]

Taqleed by Hadhrat Mahdi

According to the Kasf (spiritual inspiration) of Mujjahid Alif Thani (R.A) Mahdi will follow the Mazhab of Imam Abu Hanifa (R.A),
However if someone has to say that Kasf is no Shari proof which is a valid statement, then our reply is that definitely Hadhrat Imam Mahdi will not be a Ghair Muqaleed or Ahle Hadith as is known today. It is the unanimous decision of the Ulema that,
i. Taqleed is Waajib in our times. Sayed Ahmed Thanwi (H.1233), states the group on salvation is the Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat which has been concised in the 4 Mazhabs, which are Hanafi, Maaliki, Shafi, Hanbali. And those persons in the age who are not from these Mazhabs are amongst the innovators and dwellers of the fire (not from the Ahle Sunnat). (Tahtawi Alaa Durul Muktaar, vol.4. p. 153).
ii. The Ahle - Sunnat - wal - Jamaat are Muqaleeds of any one of the four great Imams of Fiqh.
iii. Those not conforming to any one of the four Mazhabs are not amongst the Ahle - Sunnat - wal - Jamaat
When Hadhrat Mahdi comes then, one of these two possibilities will exist,
i. he will be Mujtahid -e- Mutlaq ( like the great Imams of Fiqh) or
ii. be a Muqaleed .
If he is ( i ) well and good and if he is ( ii ) then in order to be from the Ahle - Sunnat - wal Jamaat he has to be Muqaleed.
For certain he will not be from the Ahle Hadith or Ghair Muqaleed for these groups are not from the Ahle - Sunnat - wal - Jamaat .

I donot agree with what you have said above, Imam Abu Hanifa was a mujadid and formulated his madhab. But to say that anyone not on the four madhabs is not from Ahle sunnah wal jammah is nonesense, who gives you the right to judge people. Have you looked at the hearts of people, I think you should read about Imam Anwar Shah Kashmiri and his opinion on whether Allah will question us on our Madhab or deeds????????????
The Ahle Hadith are our brothers and the usul they follow is different to that followed by others, they take from the Madhaib, they donot invent new things.
Imam Mahdi will be a Mujjadid and those who rigidly follow a madhab will oppose him first as it has been the case previously.
What do you say about Shah Waliullah Dehlvi, he was not from any madhab.

[Saad]

I
What do you say about Shah Waliullah Dehlvi, he was not from any madhab.

Faqeehul Ummah Hazrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi Sahib Rahmatullahi Alaihe writes:

Hazarat Shah Waliullah Sahib (rahmatullahi alaihe) was enriched with the treasures of a vast amount of knowledge, deep concerns, high morals, righteous behaviour, purified mind, cleansed heart, strong connection and true saintliness. Whenever any doubts arised, instantly it was solved through Nabawi Ruhanyat as if all the traditions were in front of him. He was well aware of the Mazahib and had full experience of the
Imams of Ijtihad regarding the principles of Istinbaat and the derivation of masa' il. He was well versed in the science of collaboration between two traditions and was a Hafiz of Naasikh and Mansookh etc.

Considering all this, he did not have the need to do Taqleed but the Prophet compelled him to do so. There were other thing as well apart from Taqleed which he was forced to do against the urge of his nature. Hence he writes.

(Fuyuzul-Haramain pg.65)

He passed away in 1176 A.H. and it was the same year that he taught Bukhari Sharif for the last time. He wrote the Sanad out for Molvi Cheraagh Sahib with his pen, which still exists in Khudaa Baksh Library in Patnaa along with the Bukhari Sharif itself. On the Sanad he wrote 'Hanafi' with his name. It has also got Hazarat Shah Rafi-ud-deen's certification on it, to prove that it was written by his father, along with Shah Alam's stamp of confirmation as well. From this we can tell that he stayed a Hanafi till the end. Nobody has the authority to say that he became a Ghair Muqallid.

Of course he used to collect them according to his capability and discuss the strength and weakness of the proofs, which might have left doubts in some people.

[Usman]

I donot agree with what you have said above, Imam Abu Hanifa was a mujadid and formulated his madhab. But to say that anyone not on the four madhabs is not from Ahle sunnah wal jammah is nonesense, who gives you the right to judge people. Have you looked at the hearts of people, I think you should read about Imam Anwar Shah Kashmiri and his opinion on whether Allah will question us on our Madhab or deeds????????????
The Ahle Hadith are our brothers and the usul they follow is different to that followed by others, they take from the Madhaib, they donot invent new things.
Imam Mahdi will be a Mujjadid and those who rigidly follow a madhab will oppose him first as it has been the case previously.
What do you say about Shah Waliullah Dehlvi, he was not from any madhab.

brother abuzainab is right, just because someone does not follow any of the four fiqhs in particular, he/she is not expelled from Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah. Therefore, the reasons for Ghair Muqallideen not being from the Ahlus Sunnah are otherwise. The ghair muqallideen are a group of confused and confusing people. They are more like a child born out of a wedlock who is still searching for his father. AT times they atrribute themselves with Shah Waliullah Rahimahullah, who,in-fact was a Hanafi (see Fuyudhul Haramayn , by Shah Waliullah Rahimahullah), while when they find the Saudi Salafi Ulama agreeing with them on some rulings, they sideline with them, such examples are well known for indo-pak Sunnis.

[sulaman]

I donot agree with what you have said above, Imam Abu Hanifa was a mujadid and formulated his madhab. But to say that anyone not on the four madhabs is not from Ahle sunnah wal jammah is nonesense, who gives you the right to judge people. Have you looked at the hearts of people, I think you should read about Imam Anwar Shah Kashmiri and his opinion on whether Allah will question us on our Madhab or deeds????????????


Assalam-u-Aliekum-wa-Rahmatullahi-wa-Barakatuh!
Ya akhi in Islam!
The Sunnah:
In the present time the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’ah is confined to the four Madhabs. Whoever searches for the path of the Sunnah beyond the confines of the four Madhabs will deviate in to Baa’til. Since every teaching of the four Madhabs is the Qur’aan and the Sunnah, deviation therefrom is to deviate from the Sunnah. Those who deviate from the Sunnah are destined for Jahannum according to the explicit pronouncement of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam who said:

"Bani Israael split into seventy-two sects. My Ummat will split into seventy-three sects. All of which, save one, will be in the fire"

When he was asked regarding the sects which will be saved from the fire Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam said:

"That path on which I and my Sahaabah are."

Salvation (Najaat) in the Hereafter (Aakhirah) therefore depends on donning the mantle of Taqleed. We should strive to ensure our safety from the ingeniously subtle designs of Shaitaan to drag us with him into eternal punishment.

And Only Allah Ta'ala Knows Best.


I think you should read about Imam Anwar Shah Kashmiri and his opinion on whether Allah will question us on our Madhab or deeds????????????
Plz mention complete source...


What do you say about Shah Waliullah Dehlvi, he was not from any madhab
bro Khanbaba has already given its answer....

[Usman]

btw, need to correct the bros, Isa Alaihis Salaam and Mahdi Alaihir Ridhwan will be Mujtahideen, and Mujtahideen don't have to follow a madhab. Just like Shah Waliullah (Rahimahullah) that he was Mujtahid Fil Madhab, except the Prior two will be Mujtahid Mutlaq.

wassalaam

P.s : My Head's not working correctly, I need a head cleaner, so plz forgive any crazy comments.

[tru_Qur'an]

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaatu,

Excuse me for saying this brothers and sisters, and please do not take offense to what I am about to say because that is not my intention but,

trying to figure out what Madhab 'Isa (alayhe salam) or what madhab Imam Mahdi will belong to is a bit far fetched don't you think?

In my opinion, this information would be labled as 'knowledge that doesn't benefit' because this is information that is unknown.



Jazak'Allah khair

[abuzainab]

Assalam-u-Aliekum-wa-Rahmatullahi-wa-Barakatuh!
Ya akhi in Islam!
The Sunnah:
In the present time the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’ah is confined to the four Madhabs. Whoever searches for the path of the Sunnah beyond the confines of the four Madhabs will deviate in to Baa’til. Since every teaching of the four Madhabs is the Qur’aan and the Sunnah, deviation therefrom is to deviate from the Sunnah. Those who deviate from the Sunnah are destined for Jahannum according to the explicit pronouncement of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam who said:

"Bani Israael split into seventy-two sects. My Ummat will split into seventy-three sects. All of which, save one, will be in the fire"

When he was asked regarding the sects which will be saved from the fire Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam said:

"That path on which I and my Sahaabah are."

Salvation (Najaat) in the Hereafter (Aakhirah) therefore depends on donning the mantle of Taqleed. We should strive to ensure our safety from the ingeniously subtle designs of Shaitaan to drag us with him into eternal punishment.

And Only Allah Ta'ala Knows Best.


Plz mention complete source...


bro Khanbaba has already given its answer....


Imam Anwar Shah Kashmiri (r.a) later on his life is quoted to have said to his students Mufti Shafi that Allah will not ask me about which Madhab I followed rather Allah will ask me about my deeds.
Also your argument that he who does not follow a Madhab is deviating is incorrect - it is not for you to judge. There are many scholars in the world and throughout history who have taken opinions from the different schools of thought - because the Prophet (saw) left the Quran and sunnah as guide. All schools of thought are on the way of the Rasool and those who take directly from Quran and sunnah are also on the path of righteousness.

Salvation in Akhirah depends on the Mercy of Allah.

[abuzainab]

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaatu,

Excuse me for saying this brothers and sisters, and please do not take offense to what I am about to say because that is not my intention but,

trying to figure out what Madhab 'Isa (alayhe salam) or what madhab Imam Mahdi will belong to is a bit far fetched don't you think?

In my opinion, this information would be labled as 'knowledge that doesn't benefit' because this is information that is unknown.



Jazak'Allah khair


Having the Madhaib means that there is a lot of flexibility in the deen of Allah since this deen is easy to follow. It is the rigidity of the later generations that has caused problems in the ummah.

Shah Waliullah was Mujtahid Mutlaq.

[tru_Qur'an]

Bukhari
Volume 4, Book 55, Number 658:
Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said "How will you be when the son of Mary (i.e. Jesus) descends amongst you and he will judge people by the Law of the Quran and not by the law of Gospel (Fateh-ul Bari page 304 and 305 Vol 7) "

We already recognise that 'Isa (alayhe salam) will judge by Qur'aan and Sunnah. On the other hand, when we go into details about ' what madhab will he follow' is a bit extreme in my opinion because it would entail nothing but conjecture and is information that could lead to someone showing bigotry towards ones own madhab.

From " Understanding the Four Madhabs" Abdul Murad Hakim quotes Imam Al-Dhahabi as saying

‘Do not think that your madhhab is the best, and the one most beloved by Allah, for you have no proof of this. The Imams, may Allah be pleased with them, all follow great goodness; when they are right, they receive two rewards, and when they are wrong, they still receive one reward.’ (al-Dhahabi, Zaghal al-`Ilm wa’l-Talab, 15, quoted in Sa`id Ramadan al-Buti, Al-Lamadhhabiya Akhtar Bid`a tuhaddid al-Shari`a al-Islamiya, 3rd edition, Beirut, 1404, 81.)

Like I said before, seems like we would be searching for knowledge that doesn't benefit; and again, this is just my opinion.

And Allah Knows Best.

Barak'Allahu Feekum

[tru_Qur'an]

I meant Abdal-Hakim Murad and not Abdul Murad Hakim.

[Shaykh Timbuktu]

as-Salamu 'alaykom, one of the main points Shaykh 'Uthman Dan Fodio empasized upon was the activation of Tajdeed (Islamic Revival), and he (May Allah ta 'ala engulf him in His Mercy) said that one of the nulifications of Tajdeed was showing Inkaar (rejection) towards the Mujtahid a'immah. In his (r.h) Tawfeeq al-Muslimeen (The Success of the Muslims) he focused on the legality of our Mujtihid a'immah of Ahlul-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah and wrote the following in the first chapter:



Issue One
The Legal Judgement of the Schools of Thought (madhaahib) of the Mujtahideen

There is unanimous agreement among the consensus of the scholars of the sunna (may Allah be pleased with all of them) that all of the schools of thought (madhaahib) of the Muslims are upon the truth. Abd'l-Wahaab 's-Sha`arani said in his al-Bahr 'l-Mawruud Fi 'l-Mawaatheeq wa 'l-`Uhuud, "If those who argue without knowledge were to analyze the situation they would find that everyone of the schools of thought of the Muslims are embodied within the shari`a and not a single idea of their opinions retract from it, as I have clarified in the preface of my book called Kashf 'l-Ghumat `An Jamee`i 'l-'Umma, "He also said in his al-Yawaaqeet wa 'l-Jawaahir, "I have, with the help of Allah, traced the proofs of the mujtahideen and have not found a single branch from the branches of their schools of thought except that it was reliant upon sound proof. This is regardless whether that proof was a Qur'anic verse, prophetic tradition (hadeeth), historical narrative (athar), or sound deduction by anology (qiyaas saheeh) based upon a sound root. However, from their words there are those which are derived from: [1] pure unadulturated prophetic tradition (sareeh'l-hadeeth), [2] historical narrative ('athar), or [3] anological deduction (qiyaas).

Among them are those which are a derivative from the above three derivatives. Among them are those which are close, closest, remote and remotest. Each of these are derived from the rays of the light of the shari`a which is the foundation. For it is inconceivable to derive a branch from other than its foundation."

Abd 'l-`Azeez said in his ad-Durari 'l-Multaqatat, "All of the schools of thought are upon the truth." Abd 'r-Rahmaan as-Suyuuti said in his an-Niqaaya about what it is obligatory to believe in, "Realize that as-Shaafi`i, Maalik, Abu Haneefa, Ahmad and the remainder of the Imams are upon guidance from their Lord."

It has been mentioned in the 'Ida'at 'd-Dujna of Ahmad 'l-Maqri, "Maalik and the people of independent judgement. All of them are guides to the way of correctness. Like Imam as-Shaafi`i and Imam Abu Haneefa, Imam Ahmad the possessors of outstanding ranks. All of them are upon guidance from their Lord"

It has been mentioned in the al-Kawkab 's-Saati`i of Abd 'ur Rahmaan 'sSuyuuti, "Maalik, as-Shaafi`i and al-Handhali that is Ishaaq, an-Nu`maan and Ibn Hanbali Ibn `Ayaina along with at-Thawri, Ibn Jareer along with al-'Awzaa`i at-Thaahiri and the remander of the Imams Are upon the guidance and mercy of their Lord."

It has been mentioned in the Shaafiyat 'l-Quluub of Muhammad at-Taghuugi, "Maalik, As-Shaafi`i and al-Hanbali al-Hanafi, Ishaaq meaning al-Handhali And other than them from among the noble Imams Are completely upon the guidance of their Lord "

It has been mentioned in the Nadhm 'l-Kubra of Shaykh Taahir ibn Ibrahim, "Maalik and the remainder of the Imams are the Guides of the Umma towards Righteousness."

[Ma'ruf]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but am I to understand that according to several people in this thread, ibn Hazm and at-Tabari are doomed to hell fire?

[tru_Qur'an]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but am I to understand that according to several people in this thread, ibn Hazm and at-Tabari are doomed to hell fire?

Excuse me ?

[drjash]

Assalamu 'Alaikum,

Alhamdu Lillah www.islamopedia.co.uk (To the best of my knowledge) are currently the only supplier in the UK to be selling the landmark translation of Shaykh Dr Said Ramadan Al-Buti’s Al-La Madhhabiyya: Abandoning the Madhhabs is the Most Dangerous Bid`ah Threatening the Islamic Shari`ah.

This I believe is an excellant book in explaining the historical role of Madhabs in the Ummah.

Hope this is beneficial.

Was Salam

Jashim

[Isa al-Maliki]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but am I to understand that according to several people in this thread, ibn Hazm and at-Tabari are doomed to hell fire?

Imam Ibn Jarir at-Tabari (rahmatullahi alayh) was an independent mujtahid on his own and the founder of what was to be known as Jariri Madhab. Ibn Hazim was a Dhahir. The fact is that there have been numerous madhahhib in the past. There was the madhab of Sufyan at-Thawri, that of Awza'i, al-Layth etc, if I'm not mistaken. Today they have died out due to lack of proper transmission etc. In fact even the Hanbali Madhab started to die out in a sense, and only Allah Knows what will be of that madhab in a couple of hundread years.

[tru*sister]

am certain that abu hanifa (R) was the first of the four imams...innit? correct me if am wrong

[Saad]

am certain that abu hanifa (R) was the first of the four imams...innit? correct me if am wrong

Correct.

[YoungBrother]

Salaam.

Are Muslims allowed to change to different madhabs if they feel that another madhab will be better suited for them??? and did the 4 Imaams live together in the same time period (meet each other). if they did, what were their views towards each other???

[tru*sister]

firstly allow urselves to follow a madhab, them great imams never told thier students to call themselves hanafi, malaki etc so who says any of you people can? i seriously cant stand when peopel who call themselves by madhabs instaed of saying 'am a muslim' if anyone asks ur a muslim dont start saying oh and am a malaki too! ridiculous...just imagine if those imam's were alive..what would they think?! subhanAllah may Allah guide this ummah inshaAllah

[tru_Qur'an]

salam

i am reading the new book by shaykh gf haddad - THE FOUR IMAMS AND THEIR SCHOOLS (http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/product_info.php?products_id=1809&osCsid=b0d)


Walaykum salaam,

Could you tell me the contents of that book?

Jazak'Allah khair

[ramzirafeeq]

AOA

Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf has rendered a valuable service to English speaking Muslims. The depth of his scholarship and the accessibility of his language combine to present the reader with a text that elucidates critical aspects of the orthodox Muslim creed, and sheds light on contentious historical and theological issues.

Imam Zaid Shakir, New Islamic Directions, USA

[Hajjiumar]

In Yasin Dutton's excellent book, "The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, The Muwatta, and the Amal of Medina", the author points out that Imam Malik's work was not the first to be called "The Well-Trodden Path". Considering him the founder of this madhhab or "Way" is a unintentional but common distortion of the legacy of this "Way".

I guess it is clear that this is my way and I would like others to move beyond the names of the Imams and go to their works. Always the first question I have is the same: why would you value hadith over the actions of the prophet (pboh) and those he instructed personally?

[Hajjiumar]

I agree with you. It is not necessary to announce anything other than that you are a muslim. However, I do think it is important for every muslim to look to our origins and learn from the discussions that have preceded us. Having done that, I think some will begin to find that one way maybe more appealing than another. That's what happened to me and I am more comfortable than I have ever been in the practice of this deen of ours. The schools (ways) offer organized and coherent views.

[Al-Faruqi]

:bismillah:
:salam:

I don't know if this is the right place here..

I have a book here which might be helpful to some of you :insh:
The book gives an overview over for example the daily prayers from a point of view of all the four madhhabs. So you have explanation for the prayer with the hanafi/maliki/shafi'i/hanbali details, so that you're able to do your prayer (or other things like tahara etc. in the book) according to the madhhab you want.

The book covers the 5 pillars of islam and some more topics (aqida etc..), but the main focus is the 5 pillars.

It's not in English, it's a German book from the german convert Ahmad A. Reidegeld. The author himself is following a madhhab and studyied, but I don't recall which madhhab and were he studied anymore..

Maybe it will be usefull for someone here, it has around 830 pages. :insh:

Data:

"Handbuch Islam", Ahmad A. Reidegeld
Spohr Verlag, 2008
ISBN: 978-9963-40-028-7
[978-3-927606-28-9]

[Hajjiumar]

The teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (SAAW) were not confined to his family. The community of Muslims in Medina were exposed to his teachings. Within your question lies the seed of factionalism or, more bluntly, sectarianism for it suggests that the prophet had secrets that he only shared with his family. This is the famous canard that then allows one to assert his family over the ummah. Imam Ja'far is taught at al-Azhar because he was a brilliant man who gave the ummah the benefit of his learning.

[mu3ayyad]

I believe that Sh M Yakubi of Syria in a talk in UK said that Imam Mahdi will not be of any Madhab and the first people to oppose him will be those who rigidly follow a Madhab. It will be great if someone can verify this statement. There are other great scholars who have made similar statements..

Just slander.

[Al-Faruqi]

:bismillah:
:salam:

I don't know if this is the right place here..

I have a book here which might be helpful to some of you :insh:
The book gives an overview over for example the daily prayers from a point of view of all the four madhhabs. So you have explanation for the prayer with the hanafi/maliki/shafi'i/hanbali details, so that you're able to do your prayer (or other things like tahara etc. in the book) according to the madhhab you want.

The book covers the 5 pillars of islam and some more topics (aqida etc..), but the main focus is the 5 pillars.

It's not in English, it's a German book from the german convert Ahmad A. Reidegeld. The author himself is following a madhhab and studyied, but I don't recall which madhhab and were he studied anymore..

Maybe it will be usefull for someone here, it has around 830 pages. :insh:

Data:

"Handbuch Islam", Ahmad A. Reidegeld
Spohr Verlag, 2008
ISBN: 978-9963-40-028-7
[978-3-927606-28-9]

:salam:

WARNING, I found some serious ERRORS/omissions in this book concerning the Hanafi-Madhhab, so I CAN NOT recommend this book anymore! Better stay away from it.

:ws:

[abulayl]

:salam:

WARNING, I found some serious ERRORS/omissions in this book concerning the Hanafi-Madhhab, so I CAN NOT recommend this book anymore! Better stay away from it.

:ws:

Assalamualaikum brother, i wanted to know about the error in this book. can i have ur mail address?

[Al-Faruqi]

Assalamualaikum brother, i wanted to know about the error in this book. can i have ur mail address?

:ws:

For example in the chapter about purification there is no mention of the hanafi way of doing wudu (especially how/when it breaks!), only the shafii-way is there.

And Allah knows best, may he forgive us our faults and errors.
Amin

[Propagating_Haq]

sheikh zakariyas book which has been transalted as differences of the imams is an excellent book, available from azhar academy.

[zaidf]

Salaam Aleykum
are there any books in english which refute the ghair muqallideen's views on Imam Abu Hanifa (rah)??

[abulayl]

Salaam Aleykum
are there any books in english which refute the ghair muqallideen's views on Imam Abu Hanifa (rah)??

http://www.central-mosque.com/fiqh/abuhanifa_tabi.htm

http://www.central-mosque.com/biographies/abuhaneef_hadeeth.pdf

http://www.central-mosque.com/fiqh/hanifmy.htm

http://www.central-mosque.com/fiqh/acadbackhn.htm

[Colonel_Hardstone]

sheikh zakariyas book which has been transalted as differences of the imams is an excellent book, available from azhar academy.

Asslamo Allaikum Mufti Saheb,

Here you go...

Al-I'tedaal Fi Maratibur Rijaal (Islamic Politics) by Shaykhul Hadeeth Maulana Mohammed Zakariyya Kandhalwi (RA) (http://www.esnips.com/doc/9646109c-404c-4c7f-b0ac-69bcf738f4c1/aitedalfimaratib)

[ENIGMA]

Thats not the book Mufti Cool is talking about.

[abulayl]

3585

it contains:

Differences in the Ummah
by the late Hadhrat Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Ludhyanvi Shaheed (Rahmatullah Alayhi)

Boundaries of Differences
From the Discourses of Faqihul-Ummat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (rahmatullah alay)

Difference of Opinion in Fiqh - Shah Waliullah Muhaddith al-Dihlawi (rahi'mahullah)

I dont know about which book mufti saab is talking about the matter of difference of imam which is written by sh.zakariya(rh)

[Propagating_Haq]

its here i bought it last week

http://www.azharacademy.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=398

[SunniWaqas]

its here i bought it last week

http://www.azharacademy.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=398

:salam: Mufti Sahib (just recently got to know you are a Mufti!)

'Differences of the Imams' by Shaykhul Hadith Maulana Mohammed Zakarriya Kandhelwi (RA) is an excellent book! I am currently reading it and have found it to be extremely beneficial Alhamdulillah.

Wassalaam

[shaan5]

Asalam.... I have two questions.(1): Does anybody know of a simple kitaab in usol ul fiqh for shafi's. (2): is there any scholar alive who is a expert in all four of the mazahib

[mosleema1980]

:salam: Mufti Sahib (just recently got to know you are a Mufti!)

'Differences of the Imams' by Shaykhul Hadith Maulana Mohammed Zakarriya Kandhelwi (RA) is an excellent book! I am currently reading it and have found it to be extremely beneficial Alhamdulillah.

Wassalaam
Yes, definitely, Differences of the four Imams is a great book mashaAllah, to be read twice and three times. Makes a lot of things clear.

[LoveIslamLiveIslam]

'Differences of the Imams' by Shaykhul Hadith Maulana Mohammed Zakarriya Kandhelwi (RA) or "Ikhtilaaful Aaimma" is definitely an excellent book. It clarifies this confusing topic in plain words. Definitely a must read!

[The Fake Shaykh]

there's a book by mufti afzal hussain ilyas on taqleed and questions to the ahle-hadith, can't remember the exact name, maybe smeone else knows?

[Adnan bin Khalid]

I didn't see anyone write Mufti Taqi Usmani's "Legal status of following a Mazhab."

[abulayl]

I didn't see anyone write Mufti Taqi Usmani's "Legal status of following a Mazhab."

Allready did in post number 18,19 and 32

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=207761&postcount=32

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146434&postcount=18

[Adnan bin Khalid]

Allready did in post number 18,19 and 32

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=207761&postcount=32

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146434&postcount=18

Jazak'Allah brother,

Just woke up, half asleep >.>

[abulayl]

Jazak'Allah brother,

Just woke up, half asleep >.>
sleep bit more, then wake up, pray 2 rakah, and remember me in dua inshallah :-)

[khaled-u-ahmed]

assalamu alaikum,

do we have to follow a madhab? If so, could u plz provide me wid evidence from d quran or sunnah or from d three best generations?

[Al-Faruqi]

:salam:

Please search the forums for "taqlid", "taqlid shakhsi" and related key words like "madhhab".

This topic has been discussed to death and the ghair-muqallideen have been clearly refuted with proofs from Quran and Sunnah.

:ws:

[Muaz bin jabal]

assalamu alaikum,

do we have to follow a madhab? If so, could u plz provide me wid evidence from d quran or sunnah or from d three best generations?

Please google "prerequisites of a mujtahid" by shaykh hamza yusuf.

[Abu_Tamim]

assalamu alaikum,

do we have to follow a madhab? If so, could u plz provide me wid evidence from d quran or sunnah or from d three best generations?
In general, the understanding of the Umma is that if you are not a Mujtahid Mutlaq then you have to follow a madhhab. The number of madhahib and imaams was much higher in the earlier generations but the schools of some of them died out and their fiqh could not be codified to the extent that the fiqh of the 4 schools have been. Which is why one is now left with the four schools and must choose one of them.

[Abu_Tamim]

I didn't see anyone write Mufti Taqi Usmani's "Legal status of following a Mazhab."

Mufti M Taqi's book is a short, scholarly discussion on the issue. Quite decent. Shaykh al Hadith Maulwi Zakariyya's book is also a short exposition but seems to raise more questions than answers. Shaykh 'Abd al Hakim Murad's 'Understanding the four madhhabs' is the one that would give full marks in terms of language, clarity of views and beauty of presentation. To anyone seriously interested in this topic, I believe that M Hashim Kamali's book on Istinbat is a must. Wallahu 'Alam.

[Colonel_Hardstone]

assalamu alaikum,

do we have to follow a madhab? If so, could u plz provide me wid evidence from d quran or sunnah or from d three best generations?

:ws:

Please provide me with some evidence from Qur'aan & Sunnah and from the best three generations that I have to accept all Ahadeeth in Saheeh Bukhari & Saheeh Muslim?

[Al-Faruqi]

:salam:

Not a book, but a website with ebooks, audios and articles on the Maliki Madhhab:

http://www.muwatta.com

It's by a brother who's also a member on this forum.

:ws:

[amar_labedi]

assalamu alaikum,

do we have to follow a madhab? If so, could u plz provide me wid evidence from d quran or sunnah or from d three best generations?

Assalamalaikum wa rahtmullahi wa baraktuhu

I am also waiting to see some evidence/references form Quran and Sunnah to follow a madhab...................

[Abu_Tamim]

Assalamalaikum wa rahtmullahi wa baraktuhu

I am also waiting to see some evidence/references form Quran and Sunnah to follow a madhab...................
Please see "The Legal Status of following a madhhab" by Mufti Taqi for your question.
Wasalam.

[Al-Faruqi]

:salam:

Read online and/or download:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16625601/Legal-Status-of-Following-a-Madhab

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[masoodirafi]

Assalamalaikum wa rahtmullahi wa baraktuhu

I am also waiting to see some evidence/references form Quran and Sunnah to follow a madhab...................

Brother in Islam,
Assalamualaikum,
Here are some pages which may be of help.I request for Dua.

What is a Madhhab?
Why is it necessary to follow one?
©Nuh Ha Mim Keller 2000
The word madhhab is derived from an Arabic word meaning "to go" or "to take as a way", and refers to a mujtahid's choice in regard to a number of interpretive possibilities in deriving the rule of Allah from the primary texts of the Qur'an and hadith on a particular question. In a larger sense, a madhhab represents the entire school of thought of a particular mujtahid Imam, such as Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi'i, or Ahmad--together with many first-rank scholars that came after each of these in their respective schools, who checked their evidences and refined and upgraded their work. The mujtahid Imams were thus explainers, who operationalized the Qur'an and sunna in the specific shari'a rulings in our lives that are collectively known as fiqh or "jurisprudence". In relation to our din or "religion", this fiqh is only part of it, for the religious knowledge each of us possesses is of three types.
The first type is the general knowledge of tenets of Islamic belief in the oneness of Allah, in His angels, Books, messengers, the prophethood of Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace), and so on. All of us may derive this knowledge directly from the Qur'an and hadith, as is also the case with a second type of knowledge, that of general Islamic ethical principles to do good, avoid evil, cooperate with others in good works, and so forth. Every Muslim can take these general principles, which form the largest and most important part of his religion, from the Qur'an and hadith.
The third type of knowledge is that of the specific understanding of particular divine commands and prohibitions that make up the shari'a. Here, because of both the nature and the sheer number of the Qur'an and hadith texts involved, people differ in the scholarly capacity to understand and deduce rulings from them. But all of us have been commanded to live them in our lives, in obedience to Allah, and so Muslims are of two types, those who can do this by themselves, and they are the mujtahid Imams; and those who must do so by means of another, that is, by following a mujtahid Imam, in accordance with Allah's word in Surat al-Nahl,

" Ask those who recall, if you know not " (Qur'an 16:43),

and in Surat al-Nisa,

" If they had referred it to the Messenger and to those of authority among them, then those of them whose task it is to find it out would have known the matter " (Qur'an 4:83),

in which the phrase those of them whose task it is to find it out, expresses the words "alladhina yastanbitunahu minhum", referring to those possessing the capacity to draw inferences directly from the evidence, which is called in Arabic istinbat.

These and other verses and hadiths oblige the believer who is not at the level of istinbat or directly deriving rulings from the Qur'an and hadith to ask and follow someone in such rulings who is at this level. It is not difficult to see why Allah has obliged us to ask experts, for if each of us were personally responsible for evaluating all the primary texts relating to each question, a lifetime of study would hardly be enough for it, and one would either have to give up earning a living or give up ones din, which is why Allah says in surat al-Tawba, in the context of jihad:

" Not all of the believers should go to fight. Of every section of them, why does not one part alone go forth, that the rest may gain knowledge of the religion and admonish their people when they return, that perhaps they may take warning " (Qur'an 9:122).

The slogans we hear today about "following the Qur'an and sunna instead of following the madhhabs" are wide of the mark, for everyone agrees that we must follow the Qur'an and the sunna of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace). The point is that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) is no longer alive to personally teach us, and everything we have from him, whether the hadith or the Qur'an, has been conveyed to us through Islamic scholars. So it is not a question of whether or not to take our din from scholars, but rather, from which scholars. And this is the reason we have madhhabs in Islam: because the excellence and superiority of the scholarship of the mujtahid Imams--together with the traditional scholars who followed in each of their schools and evaluated and upgraded their work after them--have met the test of scholarly investigation and won the confidence of thinking and practicing Muslims for all the centuries of Islamic greatness. The reason why madhhabs exist, the benefit of them, past, present, and future, is that they furnish thousands of sound, knowledge-based answers to Muslims questions on how to obey Allah. Muslims have realized that to follow a madhhab means to follow a super scholar who not only had a comprehensive knowledge of the Qur'an and hadith texts relating to each issue he gave judgements on, but also lived in an age a millennium closer to the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and his Companions, when taqwa or "godfearingness" was the norm--both of which conditions are in striking contrast to the scholarship available today.

While the call for a return to the Qur'an and sunna is an attractive slogan, in reality it is a great leap backward, a call to abandon centuries of detailed, case-by-case Islamic scholarship in finding and spelling out the commands of the Qur'an and sunna, a highly sophisticated, interdisciplinary effort by mujtahids, hadith specialists, Qur'anic exegetes, lexicographers, and other masters of the Islamic legal sciences. To abandon the fruits of this research, the Islamic shari'a, for the following of contemporary sheikhs who, despite the claims, are not at the level of their predecessors, is a replacement of something tried and proven for something at best tentative.

The rhetoric of following the shari'a without following a particular madhhab is like a person going down to a car dealer to buy a car, but insisting it not be any known make--neither a Volkswagen nor Rolls-Royce nor Chevrolet--but rather "a car, pure and simple". Such a person does not really know what he wants; the cars on the lot do not come like that, but only in kinds. The salesman may be forgiven a slight smile, and can only point out that sophisticated products come from sophisticated means of production, from factories with a division of labor among those who test, produce, and assemble the many parts of the finished product. It is the nature of such collective human efforts to produce something far better than any of us alone could produce from scratch, even if given a forge and tools, and fifty years, or even a thousand. And so it is with the shari'a, which is more complex than any car because it deals with the universe of human actions and a wide interpretative range of sacred texts. This is why discarding the monumental scholarship of the madhhabs in operationalizing the Qur'an and sunna in order to adopt the understanding of a contemporary sheikh is not just a mistaken opinion. It is s****ping a Mercedes for a go-cart.

[Maisha]

Asalaam Alaikum
I know that this is an old thread that I am reading, but the question of following a Madhhab and which one to choose is new to me. So thank you for your posts and information, Insha Allah I will be guided to the most appropriate. I understand now that it is a requirment on me as a Muslim to inform myself about the four schools of thought and to choose and follow one school. I also understand now why that is, after all how can I hope to increase my knowledge, comprehension and ultimatley my worship of my creator if I do not seek advise, knowledge and information from those who know more. So my search begins, Alhumdulilah. I would be interest to know, what criteria others used in choosing the Madhhab they now follow. If there is one thing that I have come to realise as a convert to Islam, is that there will always be more questions. I also realise as a convert how much information is out there, sometimes too much because it is so difficult to know what is valid and what is not so valid. Another reason for choosing a Madhhab? One question that I would seek advise on if anyone can clarify for me, the need to follow in addition to a Madhhab, a Sheik? Is this also a requirment? How do I go about finding one? Insha Allah my questions do not highlight my ignorance to the extreem.

[binte sulaiman]

Asalaam Alaikum
I know that this is an old thread that I am reading, but the question of following a Madhhab and which one to choose is new to me. So thank you for your posts and information, Insha Allah I will be guided to the most appropriate. I understand now that it is a requirment on me as a Muslim to inform myself about the four schools of thought and to choose and follow one school. I also understand now why that is, after all how can I hope to increase my knowledge, comprehension and ultimatley my worship of my creator if I do not seek advise, knowledge and information from those who know more. So my search begins, Alhumdulilah. I would be interest to know, what criteria others used in choosing the Madhhab they now follow. If there is one thing that I have come to realise as a convert to Islam, is that there will always be more questions. I also realise as a convert how much information is out there, sometimes too much because it is so difficult to know what is valid and what is not so valid. Another reason for choosing a Madhhab? One question that I would seek advise on if anyone can clarify for me, the need to follow in addition to a Madhhab, a Sheik? Is this also a requirment? How do I go about finding one? Insha Allah my questions do not highlight my ignorance to the extreem.

Wa alaikumus salaam
All 4 madhabs are valid, you can follow whichever you like. But it would probably be easier for you to follow that madhab which the scholars in your area follow so that if you ever have any question you can refer it to them.I don't have time to explain in detail at the moment so for the question about the shaikh visit http://tasawwuf.org/.

[Maisha]

Salaam Alaikum Sister

I appreciate your reply and the link that will Insha Allah answer my question.
Alhumdulilah

[Al-Faruqi]

Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu

All four madhhabs are valid to follow. Choose the one you have the easiest access to, e.g. for people in Germany and UK this would be the Hanafi madhhab because most Islamic publications/scholars/Muslims follow/teach the Hanafi madhhab. In other countries like France where there is a significant amount of Muslims who follow the Maliki madhhab you should follow the Maliki madhhab.

Concerning the your question with the spiritual guide (shaykh or 'sufi shaykh'), please open a new thread you will insha Allah get several useful answer from knowledgeable brothers and sisters on this forum.

The cure for ignorance is asking sister, do not feel ashame of asking questions. Just ask your as many questions as you want, we have many knowledgeable brothers and sisters on this forum - and even a few scholars and students of Islamic knowledge.

May Allah bless your endeavour for knowledge and make you strong with Islam. Amin.

[masoodirafi]

Asalaam Alaikum
I know that this is an old thread that I am reading, but the question of following a Madhhab and which one to choose is new to me. So thank you for your posts and information, Insha Allah I will be guided to the most appropriate. I understand now that it is a requirment on me as a Muslim to inform myself about the four schools of thought and to choose and follow one school. I also understand now why that is, after all how can I hope to increase my knowledge, comprehension and ultimatley my worship of my creator if I do not seek advise, knowledge and information from those who know more. So my search begins, Alhumdulilah. I would be interest to know, what criteria others used in choosing the Madhhab they now follow. If there is one thing that I have come to realise as a convert to Islam, is that there will always be more questions. I also realise as a convert how much information is out there, sometimes too much because it is so difficult to know what is valid and what is not so valid. Another reason for choosing a Madhhab? One question that I would seek advise on if anyone can clarify for me, the need to follow in addition to a Madhhab, a Sheik? Is this also a requirment? How do I go about finding one? Insha Allah my questions do not highlight my ignorance to the extreem.

Sister Maisha,
Assalamualaikum,
Assalamualikum:
While it is necessary for a Muslim to follow a recognised madhhab in order to practice Islam and avert the lethal danger of misinterpreting the sources, he must never fall into the trap of considering one school categorically superior to the others. All the four schools are equally permissible and genuine. However, the choice of a Madhhab needs to be made, and one would like to know about the criteria(determining factors) for making the appropriate choice. Let’s also remember the choice of just one Madhhab of the four is a matter of convenience.
I feel that the following factors should be considered at the time of making a choice of a Madhhab:
1. Accesibility: One should choose the Madhhab which is predominant in the area where one lives. This makes it possible to have the Ulema and the relevant literature available for guidance and enrichment. It also helps in harmonious spiritual development to live in an environment of ones choice. One also learns and improves by watching others through direct contact.
2. It is essential to know that following a Madhhab is requirement just for Fiqah. There is no need to follow the scholars of any particular school with regard to Quran, Hadith, Seerat etc.
3. Then there is the temperamental inclination. One may feel more consolation and comfortable if one follows a particular school.
4. Then there is the factor of ‘Swad- i- Aazam’. One would (and should) like to follow the majority of Muslims. It is better to follow the Madhab which is most predominant globally both at the level of the common Muslims and the Scholars.
I am a Hanafi. I feel fortunate that Allah has blessed me with a situation where in all the above mentioned factors apply. About 98% Muslims in my area are Hanafii’s. The majority of the Muslims in the world follow the Hanafi Madhhab and this majority includes the majority of the Muslim Scholars and Ulema.
Regarding the requirement of a Sheikh it'll be in the fitness of things to contact some trustworthy individual or forum in your vicinity.However, I shall continue to be on the look out for any proper agency to help us out in this regard.
Brother in Islam
Rafi Ahmad Masoodi