Ash-hab, one of Imam Maalik’s students said: “Maalik was once asked whether one was safe to follow a ruling related
to him by reliable narrators who had heard it from companions of the
Prophet (saws). Imam Maalik replied, “No, by
Allah, not unless it is correct, the truth is only one. Can two
opposing opinions be simultaneously correct? The opinion that is correct
can only be one.” [Jaami’ Bayaan al-‘Ilm pg. 82, 88, 89]
Imam Abu Hanifa said to his student Abu Yusuf: “Woe be to you Ya’qoob. Do not write down everything you hear from me, for surely I may hold an opinion today and leave it tomorrow, hold another tomorrow and leave it the day after." [at-Taareekh by Ibn Mu’een vol.6, p.88]
Imam Abu Hanifa: “If a hadeeth is found to be authentic, that is my madhhab.” [Ibn ‘Aabideen, al-Haashiyah vol. 1, p.63]
Imam Abu Hanifa: “Adhere to the athaar and the way of the Salaf and
beware of newly invented matters, for all of it is an innovation.”
[As-Suyootee, Sawn al-Mantaq, p.32]
Imam Abu Hanifa: "It is not permitted for anyone to accept our views if they do not know from where we got them." [Ar halaal, Ibn `Abdul Barr in Al-Intiqaa' fi Fadaa'il ath-Thalaathah al- A'immah al-Fuqahaa' (Page 145), Ibn al-Qayyim in I'laam al- Mooqi'een (2/309)]
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee: "It is obligatory to accept a report once it is proven, even if the Imams did not act upon this report." [al-Risaalah p. 463]
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee: “There is no one among us who has not had a sunnah
of Allah’s Messenger (saws) elude him or have one slip his
mind; so no matter what rulings I have made or fundamental principles I
have proposed, there will be in them things contrary to rulings of
Allah’s Messenger (saws). Therefore, the
correct ruling is according to what Allah’s messenger (saws) said, and
that is my ruling.” [Ibn ‘Asaakir, Tareekh Dimashq al-Kabeer vol.15,
part 1, p.3]
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee: “Our school of thought is correct but could possibly be mistaken, and
the school of thought which differs from us is mistaken but could
possibly be correct.” [Fatawa Al-Kubra of Al-Haythami 4/313]
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee: “The Muslims (of my time) were of a unanimous opinion that one who
comes across an authentic sunnah of Allah’s messenger (saws) is not allowed to disregard it in favour of someone’s
else’s opinion.” [Ibn ul-Qayyim, A’laam ul-Muwaqqi’een vol.2, p.361]
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee: “The Muslims are unanimously agreed that if a sunnah of the Messenger
of Allah (saws) is made clear to someone, it is not permitted for him to
leave it for the saying of anyone else.” [I'laam , 2/361]
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee: “If I say something then compare it t the Book of Allah and the sunnah
of His Messenger (saws) and if it agrees with them, then accept it and that
which goes against them, then reject it and throw my saying against the
wall!” [An-Nawawee, al-Majmoo’ (1/63) and Ibn ul-Qayyim, A’laam ul-Muwaqqi’een (2/361)]
Imam ash-Shaafi’ee said to Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: “You know better about hadeeth than us, so if an authentic hadeeth
comes to you, then inform me of it, that I may say according to it,
whether its source is the Hijaaz or Koofah or Egypt.” [Ibn ‘AbdulBarr, al-Intiqaa, p.75]
Imam an-Nawawee in Tahdheeb al-Asmaa wa’l-Lughaat mentioned under the
biography of Imam Shaafi’ee: “…then he travelled to al-‘Iraaq where he
spread the knowledge of
hadeeth and he established the madhhab of its people – that is the
madhhab of the Ahl ul-Hadeeth.” [Shaykh Ahmad ibn Muhammad ad-Dehlawee
al-Madanee, A History of the People of Hadeeth, p.49]
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: "Do not follow my opinion; neither follow the opinion of Maalik, nor
Shaafi'i, nor Awzaa'i, nor Thawri, but take from where they took." [Fulaani p. 113& Ibn al-Qayyim in I'laam 2/302]
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: "The opinion of Awzaa'i, the opinion of Maalik, the opinion of Abu
Haneefah: all of it is opinion, and it is all equal in my eyes. However,
the proof is in the narrations (from the Prophet (saws) and his Companions)." [Ibn `Abdul Barr in Jaami' Bayaan al-'Ilm 2/149]
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah: "No one has to blindly follow any particular man in all that he enjoins
or forbids or recommends, apart from the Messenger of Allah (saws). The Muslims should always refer their
questions to the Muslim scholars, following this one sometimes and that
one sometimes. If the follower decides to follow the view of an imam
with regard to a particular matter which he thinks is better for his
religious commitment or is more correct etc, that is permissible
according to the majority of Muslim scholars, and neither Abu Haneefah,
Maalik, al-Shaafa’i or Ahmad said that this was forbidden." [Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 23/382]
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah: "Indeed the people of Truth and the
Sunnah do not follow anyone (unconditionally) except the Messenger of
Allah (saws), the one who does
not speak from his desires - it is only revelation revealed to him."
[Shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmoo'ah al-Fataawaa, vol 3, page 216]
Shaykhul Islaam ibn Taymiyyah: "Whoever deviates from the Madhhab and Tafseer of the Sahabah and
Tabi'een to that which opposes it, then he has erred in that - rather
(he has) innovated." [Refer to Majmoo' al-Fataawa v.13, p.361]
Shaykh Sulaymaan ibn ‘Abd-Allaah: "Rather what the believer must do, if the Book of Allah and the Sunnah
of His Messenger (saws) have
reached him and he understands them with regard to any matter, is to act
in accordance with them, no matter who he may be disagreeing with. This
is what our Lord and our Prophet (saws) have enjoined upon us, and all the scholars are unanimously agreed
on that, apart from the ignorant blind followers and the hard-hearted.
Such people are not scholars." [Tayseer al-‘Azeez al-Hameed, p. 546]
Shaykh
Ibn ‘Uthaymeen: "A person who only sticks to one Imam no matter what
and ignores everything else has taken this Imam as a Messenger."
[Sharh-ul-Usul, p.599]
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