Following Madhab

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his companions. Peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his companions. From Abadu, somebody asked me a question about following a religion. So, how many of you can name what are the four madhabs in the Ahlus Sunnah wa Jama'ah? No, I know you all are this group. Yes. I won't take your name because this goes worldwide, so they won't know who it is, but you can ask me first. What are the four madhabs? Maafi, Hanafi, Ambalee. I'm asking you, Vaan. I don't know what's wrong. Nafsi. Whatever I want. That madhab? No. Maliki. Hanafi, Shafi, Maliki, Ambalee. Right? Okay. So, what is your madhab? No. What is your madhab? Islam. Islam is not a madhab. Islam is a deen. Hanafi. Hanafi. What Hanafi madhab follows who? Imam Hanafi. Imam Hanafi. What is Imam Hanafi's name? Maafi. Imam Hanafi. Maafi. No, I'm not trying to insult anybody. I'm just trying to show you the problem with people who say, I follow, I am Hanafi. They do not even know the name of the Imam who they follow. They do not even know whether Hanafi is his name, whether it is a kunya, whether it is the name of his cat. We don't know. Right? But we are willing to fight to the death with somebody who is not Hanafi. Inna liillahi wa inna ilahi rajim. So please understand this. This is a very big musibat in this ummah. I am Hanafi. I am Shafi. Be Hanafi. No problem. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Right? Al turab min khadam al Imam Abu Hanifa ala raasi wa ala aini. The dust from his feet is on my head and on my eyes. No problem. Alhamdulillah. Follow. But at least learn something. So let me explain something to you. Please understand this. Number one. In al ahlu sunnah wal jama'ah, which is what we are Sunni Muslims, we follow, there are four madhahib, four schools of jurisprudence. These are not schools of thought. All kinds of nonsense is spoken in the neighborhood. It's not a school of thought. It's a school of jurisprudence. These are fuqaha. They are not philosophers. They are not phala. They are not falasifah. They are fuqaha. Right? Four schools of jurisprudence. We believe, all of us, that it is acceptable to follow any of these four ayimma al quwara. Number one. Number two. It is not okay to criticize somebody who is following another imam. And I will explain to you from the Quran and Sunnah why it is not possible and not permissible to criticize. It is not permissible to criticize somebody following another imam. So if you say you are Hanafi, most welcome. You find out the name of the imam first of all. But if you are Hanafi, most welcome. Be Hanafi. But if my brother here is Shafi, it is not permissible for you to criticize him for following Imam Shafi Rahmatullah Ali. And it is not permissible for you to criticize him for following Imam Abu Hanifa Rahmatullah Ali. And I will give you the dalail for this. When we say we follow an imam. Say for example, I will give you one of the most common things which we see every day. Which is how we pray. Right? So if you are Hanafi, how many times do you raise your hands? Once. Once. Right? When? Starting of Salah. Starting of Salah. What is it called? That particular motion? Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn. Learn. So first rule. If you follow some imam, follow him. Follow with knowledge. Don't just say blindly, I am Hanafi, I am Shafi. What is the name of the imam? I don't even know the name of the imam. What do you mean? Go and learn. Number two. It is not okay to criticize somebody else. I said an example, I will give you. In Salah. The Hanaf, people who follow Imam Abu Hanifa Rahmatullah Ali, they raise their hands once to the level of their ears. When they do that, what is called Takbir Tahrimah or Takbiratul Haram. Takbiratul Haram. And Allahu Akbar when we start the Salah. Right? In the Fiqh, is it necessary to raise your hands at all? Or is it necessary to say Allahu Akbar? Which one? Allahu Akbar. If somebody does not raise his hand at all, his Salah is valid or invalid? It is valid. So first of all understand that. But, it is not like that. People who follow Imam Abu Hanifa Rahmatullah Ali, they raise their hands once. Very good. People who follow Imam Shafi, Imam Muhammad bin Hanbal and the Malikis, they will raise their hands, how many times? With Shafi, how many times? First Takbir Tahrimah, after that? Before you go for Ruku and after you get up from Ruku and then in the third rakat. Right? So four times in the Salah. Now, tell me who is right, who is wrong? All right. Why all right? Why do you say that? Out of politeness, because we are nice people. No. Give me the dalil. Because Rasool Allah did that. He prayed by raising his hands only once and he prayed by raising his hands four times. Why? What is the dalil? What is the dalil? From where? For raising your hands four times, beginning in Imam Bukhari, Imam Omar narrated that the Prophet ﷺ used to make his hand. That is not, Imam Bukhari is not dalil. Dalil has to be the Sahabi. Who is the Sahabi? Ibn Omar narrated in the... Ibn Omar and who? Even before that? Ibn Abbas. Ibn Abbas and Ibn Omar narrated in Bukhari that Nabi raised his hands four times. The dalil for raising a hand one time is who? Which Sahabi? Ibn Masood . Right? No. What are we saying here? We are saying that Ibn Abbas and Ibn Omar said that who raised his hands four times? Rasool Allah. Rasool Allah . They did not say, I do this, therefore follow me. Did they say that? Ibn Masood , he said, who raised his hand one time? Rasool Allah . He didn't say follow me. He said follow the Rasool . Yes? Now, why is there a difference in this narration? If I ask you who's right, you got... These two Sahabi here. You got one here. And Ibn Masood specifically about him. He said, whatever Ibn Masood gives you, take it. So who's right? In this case, you look at the chain of relations. It's why it's a world of tentative power. If both of them are prevented, then it's just like you see previously. That the Qasaba did this and did that. Correct. That was the power. Correct. In this case, it's not a question of chain of narrative. Both are authentic. Ibn Masood, that's why he was read Sira. Ibn Masood , Nabi sent him away on some ambassadorial work earlier. Because he was older. Ibn Abbas and Ibn Abdul Awi were younger. Ibn Abbas stayed with Rasool in his house. So they stayed with him to the end of his days. Whereas Ibn Masood had left earlier. So both chains are correct. Imam Abu Hanifa chose the report of Ibn Masood because he usually did that. He usually took when there were two reports. One Ibn Masood and one somebody else. Imam Abu Hanifa used to take the dalil of Ibn Masood . Alhamdulillah. Therefore, this is the reason for believing. Now, if somebody says Imam Shafi'i is wrong. I will not follow the Shafi'i. People are doing wrong. What are you saying? You are saying that Abdul Abin Umar was wrong. You are saying Abdul Abin Abbas was wrong. And because they quoted Rasool . Therefore, who is wrong? So you are going to sit in judgement and say that Rasool was wrong. So you are the Rasool. Please. This Shiddat ala Mazhab Haram. Asabiyat Haram. You want to follow the Hanafi Mazhab? Please go ahead and do it. No problem. You want to follow Shafi'i Mazhab? Please go ahead and do it. No problem. Don't criticize somebody else. That is not your job. You want to follow? Follow. Similarly, Jemaah bainan Salatain. Khasarun. Khasarun. Khasarun. Khasarun. Khasarun. Khasarun. Next Ksham. Next Ksham. When you are travelling, you shorten your prayer, and you join, if you want to join, Dhuhr Asar and Maghrib Manisha. Somebody says, I don't want to join. I follow the Hanafi Mazhab. I will pray the Salah at its time. Is he right or wrong? Alhamdulillah, no problem. Please go ahead. But he says the one who is joining is doing wrong. Now is it right or wrong? Wrong. Because Rasool rejoins. He also didn't join. Both are authentic reports. So please understand when you follow a mother, number one, follow with knowledge. Go study. Starting with the name of the mother. Number two, please follow your mother. What is not permitted is for you to start your own mother. And say, no, logically, this is what I should do. I read this Hadith, therefore I am doing this. I read this Ayah, I have interpreted it this way. No, this is haram. This is absolute nonsense. Don't invent a religion. But if somebody wants to follow one of the four Imams, most welcome. What is not welcome is to criticize somebody who is following another Imam. Because as I explained to you, when you criticize the Imam, you are criticizing the Sahabi. When you criticize the Sahabi, you are criticizing the Rasul. Alayhi salam. Alayhi salatu wasalam. Obviously, we don't want to go there. Right? Two other matters which people talk about with respect to Madhab. One is, people say that just changing or taking something from one Madhab and following it for the sake of convenience. For example, people combining Salahs in travel. Take that as an example. So, just doing it. Say, I am a Hanafi, but... For the sake of convenience, I take it and I combine my Salah when I am travelling. And somebody says, well, you know, this is wrong. And think about this. We have the hadith of Aisha Siddiqa, Radhi Alla'a Anha, where she said that Rasulullah when he had two options, as long as both the options were halal, both the options were permissible, he would always choose the easier one. He would not deliberately choose the more difficult one. So, if a Hanafi person is combining his Salah, he would always choose the easier one. So, if a Hanafi person is combining his Salah, he would always choose the easier one. So, if a Hanafi person is combining his Salah,