What makes your school of fiqh so 'interesting' to you

[Abdur_Rahman]

:salam:

What is it that makes it so appealing to you, besides the "oh well my school has been in existance for 'x' amount of years"

Is it because of a particular science that it stresses upon or is more than just locale, please elaborate :insh:

:cheesygri :ws:

[mospike]

For me it's about it's simplicity, just like Sunnat "True Sunnat is Simplicity" whats cool is the follwoing Masala.
If one has come late for Salaah and missed a rakaat or Two. When the Imam makes salaam youmake salaam with him forgetting that you came late, then if you havent said anything that is considered worldy talk you can just get up and compplete your missed rakaats. Reference is Baheshti Zewar chapter on how to complete missed rakaats

[muhammadnur]

Salaam,

The philosophy of 'Amal. To me that gives the Maliki madhab life because its is what Imam Malik actually saw being practiced.

Muhammad-Nur

[Usman]

The understanding of Aayaat and Ahadeeth rather than simply following what you see in the book. The best and the most influencial thing about the Fiqh is to bring into view the time and space of ahadeeth, then aathar explaining etc. Everything just fits into such perfect harmony that Subhan'Allah.

Before studying, I had doubts about several things and ahadeeth, but Alhamdulillah gradually when you study the usool of ahnaaf and then the explanation and commentary over issues, just can't explain in words..............

Last but not least, the greatness of the person towards whom the study is referred to, Abu Haneefah an'Numan ibn Thabit, the person who's knowledge and greatness is acknowledged by all other aimma of fiqh. Just too short to explain here....... so.......... Im done

[laughinglion]

:salam:

The `amal of the people of Madina Munawwarah = The Sunnah...The Deen is ease.

With peace.

[IlyasLahoz]

Salaam,

In looking at the available information about the 4 madhahib, Imam Malik's :anhu: was the one closest to the time/place of the Prophet :saw:. The beauty of deriving the sunnah from living, breathing practitioners of it is too difficult for me to describe. That, combined with the qualities of Imam Malik himself :anhu:, was sufficient for me.
So the short answer is that the Amal of Madinah is, to me, the best, clearest (and most beautiful) proof.
And Alalh knows best.

[PocketY]

Well, I haven't had the chance to compare my school of fiqh much with other schools, nor have I really studied the usul poperly, so I can't comment on these aspects that make the Shafi'i mazhab more interesting. Maybe someone more learned can comment on these aspects.
But, from a layperson's point of view, some Shafi'i rulings seem to be on the cautious side (ie wudhu invalidated by touching of non-related men and women, be it husband and wife), which seem rather interesting to me.
Also the fact that many great luminaries of Islam also adhered to the Shafi'i mazhab (please correct me if I am wrong) such as Imam Ghazali, Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim, Imam Nawawi, etc. There are theories that Islam was spread to South East Asia through the efforts of the Prophet's :saw: descendants from Yemen, who happen to be mainly Shafi'i. It was always interesting to me that we are mainly Shafi'i, given our close proximity to India who are mainly Hanafi (by the way, does anyone know what mazhab our brethren in China adhere to?).
Also it is a matter of simplicity. I find adhering to a school of fiqh much easier as all the hard work of figuring out the rulings have been done for you, and as all 4 mazahib are considered equal, and the fiqh I learnt when I was growing up happened to be one of them, there has to be a really strong reason for me to switch mazhabs.
But MashaAllah, I find the differences between the mazhabs very interesting indeed, and I really take joy in our ummah's diversity.

[ibn_abdullah]

As salaamu alaykum

From what the information i've received, the majority of Chines Muslims follow the Hanafi school.

Wa'Allahu alam

Was salaam

[mospike]

I to am totally facinated by the differences in terms "Fiqh" within the Ummat. The best part of Ahlu Sunnah is that we do not play down other Fiqhs, nor do we speak Ill of their Imams and most of All we acknowledge their proofs.

I am trying at this moment to start learning the proofs of the Hanafi Fiqh. I understand that the new Beheshti Zewar comes with detail proofs of each Masaail "Any info on this guys?"
Does anyone know of an Engish book with all the references and proofs from Quraan and Sunnah for Hanfia Fiqh?

I too am one open to other schools. For example i am a Hnafi but i live in a Shafi community so i lean their Fiqh every Wed night, which is so interesting for me, most of all it highlights the differences and i am able to understand true fiqh better.

[Abdur_Rahman]

anyone else? :cheesygri :insh:

[Goldi]

I am a hanafi.

Hanafi methodology in determining their rulings is logically bullet-proof.

Some rulings to look at:

-Why the 'ameen' is not said allowed during prayer. Why?
-The reasoning behind the Wajib property of Sunnan Al-Huda
-The hanafi reasoning behind why often times, a longer isnad is preferred over a shorter one (the shafi's atleast prefer the shorter one)

[hope_n_fear]

I am a hanafi.

Hanafi methodology in determining their rulings is logically bullet-proof.

Some rulings to look at:

-Why the 'ameen' is not said allowed during prayer. Why?
-The reasoning behind the Wajib property of Sunnan Al-Huda
-The hanafi reasoning behind why often times, a longer isnad is preferred over a shorter one (the shafi's atleast prefer the shorter one)


Assalamu alaikum,

Please enlighten us by answering them. JazakAllah khair ! : )

Walaikum Assalaam

[Mohammad_Ibrahiem]

assalam aleykum wa rahmatullaah

I like the shafi'i madhab because of its great imam as-sheich ud dien sayyidi al habib imam Mohammad ibn Idries as-shafi'i rahmatoelaahi aleihim wa ala alihi. The man of which sayidina gaira galqullah aleihi salato wa salam wa ala alihi wa zehbihil kariem said "O Allah! Guide Quraysh, for the science of the scholar that comes from them will encompass the earth. O Allah! You have let the first of them taste bitterness, so let the latter of them taste reward."
Also as someone already noticed many of the great ulema of the past where shafi'i. But actually the Shafi'i madhab just cose me I didn't want to follow it, I wanted to be hanafi or maliki as most people i my country are. I trie to be but I just couldn't. Then I remembered the briliant scholar of whoms briliant words I read in fiqh us sunna in my la madhabi time. I began looking for sources where I could find more of his fatwa's thil I finally found sunnipath and busy reading the articles of noble scholars like Nuh Ha Mim Keller may Allah give him the greatest of all blessings in this world and the next.
This is my story of my travel to the Shafi'i madhab and sunni islam. I was whonce a la madhabi like you but the most mercifull opened my eyes and made me an Ashari and a Shafi'i. Just one year ago I was making myself mad about the visiting of the grave of a sahabi in Turkey by people I then saw as misguided and now alhamdoelilah I myself have intention to visit the qabr sharief of my beloved imam aleihi rahma in Cairo this summer.

allahoemahfirlana wa alaik

Ibrahiem

[Shaykhs-Pir Sahib]

salams

what interests me is Imam Malik's preference of amal - what he saw - over a sahih hadith. what he saw was islam being lived, and inherited from the sahabah and ultimately rasul, what he saw was the practice of the citizens of the most perfectly governed land in the history of man.

what interests me is the adhan of the maliki's - which HAS to be the most authentic adhan, as it was done 5 times daily in the masjid al-nabawi from his time, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to subsequent generations to Malik... any change in its method would SURELY have been documented or noted by the ulama of madinah, the tabi'in or the sahabah.