Which Madhab would you follow if you had to leave your current madhab?

[aMuslimForLife]

Which Madhab would you follow, if you had to leave your current madhab?

Which madhab would you pick and why? Of the other three, why that one?

(NOTE: I do not know under what circumstance one would have to leave their madhab but just wondering)

[aMuslimForLife]

I am currently a Shafi, if I had to leave the Shafi madhab, and was force to pick another madhab, I would pick the Maliki madhab.

Why?

Because I love the Amal of Medinah. It is a very beautiful principle of fiqh. Very indepth.

[Raeesa]

I am hanafi at the moment... probably Shafi' because i know a lot of their rulings already.. and i guess that makes me lazy lol

[Raeesa]

Hmm just a thought.. the poll would be kind of biased.. because on this forum there are a lot more hanafi's so if they all vote.. they can't still pick hanafi.. which means it might look as though fewer people want to be hanafi's which isnt accurate.
Just my 2 pence lol

[Abu Usama]

Salam,

I am hanafi and i would go to the shafi, and maybe one day in the future this might happen. Who knows?

Reasoning is that the hanafi madhab is tough. You dont do your sunnas and your sinful, you do makruh tahrime things (like watching tv with no need) and your sinful. In the shafi madhab makruh doesn't make you sinful. I would follow the shafi madhab for the most part, except in the areas of ghusl, wudu and salah, for which i would follow the hanbali position (as they say you can recite behind the imam in silent salah, but that its not obligatory) and also because the hanbali prayer is a lot more similar to the hanafi one than any other madhabs.

Wasalam

[Saleel]

Salam,

I am hanafi and i would go to the shafi, and maybe one day in the future this might happen. Who knows?

Reasoning is that the hanafi madhab is tough.

So you would leave your Hanafi madhhab because your naffs found it too tough? Isn't this exactly why taqleed is wajib? To keep our hawa at bay?

Sigh, I had a feeling this would come up as soon as I saw the subject of this thread.

[Raeesa]

Hmmm Hanafi madhab is tougher than the Shafi madhab? lol i dunno.. i find the hanafi easier, not that i've eva practised any other madhab before lol
For example although disliked in the hanafi madhab u can have yr nikaah done without the consent of a wali however thats not allowed in the Shafi madhab... but i guess in stuff like joining prayers etc.. it can be considered easier...

i dunno this will probably sound rong but i understand the hanafi rulings better.. but i think thats a personal thing.. allahu aalim

[Abu Usama]

Salam,

I guess maybe you could say that its because of my nafs, but mostly its because i have sx years of salah to make up and to do that as a hanafi aint particularly easy compared to the shafis! But then there are restrictions in the shafi madhab like not being able to buy off the interent (cos they say there must be a verbakl agreement in transactions).

What I'll most likely do is stay a hanafi, but try and learn enough about the basics of the shafis and hanbalis, just in case i ever need em, such as when i go on the really long journey to Pakistan and want to combine my salah.

[Saleel]

I guess maybe you could say that its because of my nafs, but mostly its because i have sx years of salah to make up and to do that as a hanafi aint particularly easy compared to the shafis!

I don't understand the "but" in there. Isn't changing madhhab to makeup missed salaahs exactly that - following our desires?

Remember that deen is based on wahi (revelation) and not the result of our desires. Desires cant propogate while one is within the chains of taqleed. If we break ourselves from taqleed, we ultimately enjoin ourselves with the shackles of the naffs.

[Abu Usama]

I don't understand the "but" in there. Isn't changing madhhab to makeup missed salaahs exactly that - following your desires?

Salam,

At the end of the day, making up missed prayers is more important (because it is fardh) than performing other non-obligatory prayers (which is what the shafis say).

But to be honest, the obvious thing would be to perform both the qadha and the sunnats together, but that isn't easy. So i guess you could say that it would be following the nafs.