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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, he would always choose the easier one.
So, if a Hanafi person is combining his Salah, he would always choose the easier one.
For the sake of convenience, how is it wrong?
He is following the Sunnah of Rasulullah .
Alhamdulillah.
Another one.
If somebody says, you know, I am a Hanafi and I raise my hand only for the Takbir Tahreema,
for the Takbir tul-Ahram, and I…
For the Takbir tul-Ahram, and I…
But I know that it is the Sunnah of Rasulullah to raise his hands, rafa’i dha’ind, for the
right of his Salah.
And if somebody says, you know, I am a Hanafi.
He will always choose the easier one.
One way or another, but anyway, you will always follow the Sunnah of Rasulullah .
Actually, before the Sunnah of Rasulullah , he used to follow the Sunnah of Ibn Abbas
four times in the Salah.
And four times in the Salah.
We have the Hadeeth of Ibn Abbas and Abdullah bin Omar and the…
Therefore, the ruling of Imam Shafa’i and others.
So, if this Hanafi person says, you know, I would like to follow every Sunnah of Rasulullah
, at least sometimes.
it is the ruling therefore of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So I am following the sunnah of the Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So now if I want to follow another sunnah of the Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
but it so happens that that sunnah is from another Madhab, so why is it wrong?
His niyyah is that he wants to follow the sunnah of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
a different one from the one he normally follows, for the love of the Habib .
Now how is it wrong? So my point is that people who say it is wrong,
you are now taking the position of right and wrong which belongs to Allah.
It’s not your position. You are not sent into this world to judge people.
Because right and wrong depends on the niyyah.
Innamal amaloo binniyyat. And the niyyah of the person is inside his heart.
You have no access to that. You can’t go inside his heart to see what his niyyah is.
And if that person is doing his, whatever he is doing, with the correct niyyah,
inshaAllah Allah will reward him. If his niyyah is wrong,
then Allah is the one who will reward him.
If his niyyah is wrong, then Allah is the one who will reward him.
If his niyyah is wrong, then Allah is the one who will reward him.
Yaaghfiru lima yasha wa ya’adhu ma yasha wa allahu ala kulli shay’in qadeer.
Allah can give azaab to punish anyone He wants and He can benefit and He can reward anyone He
wants and He can do whatever He wants. That is the job of Allah , not your job,
my brother or my sister. So please be very clear in your mind. Don’t take the job of Allah .
It’s not your job. You have not been delegated. You are not the Nabi. So stick to your amal only.
Look at yourself.
Make sure your niyyah is correct. Make sure you are following the correct sunnah of Rasulullah
. Make sure you are not inventing a new deen for yourself. And Alhamdulillah,
if you want to follow a particular madhab completely, strictly, rigidly, be my guest.
Go ahead, right away, do it. If on the other hand, you take the position, which is the position of
Alhamdulillah, all the ulama, all the people of knowledge, which is that whichever madhab you are
following, follow it with full attention. If you are following the correct sunnah of Rasulullah,
you are following the correct deen, which is the sunnah of Rasulullah, then you are following the correct
deen with full understanding. So study the madhab, follow it with full understanding, don’t just
blindly follow. And then as and when required, if there is a reason, if there’s a need to do
something from another madhab, there is absolutely no harm, no problem with that. That is a legitimate,
valid, learned position in the deen. Please go ahead and do that.
There’s a wonderful story, Alhamdulillah, about… On the subject of Asabiyyats.
Asabiyyats.
What is it?
Malal Masab, the shamanism and strictness on following the Masab.
Story about people who are true Mu’alama, who are true scholars and their position on this.
The story is that there were some students who went from Medina to Mecca and to Jatah.
Now in Jatah there is this Masjid Abu Hanifa where Imam Abu Hanifa used to also be there.
Not in Pemini, he was there when he used to live, but obviously at that time he was not alive.
So it was a masjid which was associated with the Hanifa.
So these students from Medina, they’re going there.
And I say students, I mean these are ulamas, they’re not like, you know, Madrasa students.
So their teacher, their ustad, he said to them, you are Shafi’i and Hanbali and you do Rafaydayn,
you raise your hands four times in the Salah, but you are going to a place which is Hanafi.
And they do not do Rafaydayn, they raise their hand only once.
So if they ask you to lead Salah, one of you, because this is from the akhlaq of the Muslimin,
that if you have a scholar from Salah.
If you have somebody, you offer, give them the mimbar and you give them the musallah to lead Salah.
So they said, if they ask you to lead Salah, do not do Rafaydayn as a matter of respect for those people.
Now, when they reached there, the students to whom they went to meet in the masjid Abu Hanifa,
Rahatul Ali, their teacher told the students the opposite.
He said, these are people who are Hanbali and who are Shafi’i and they raise their hands for Rafaydayn.
So when you are praying behind them, or if you lead Salah, then you make Rafaydayn.
Normally you don’t make Rafaydayn, you make Rafaydayn.
And this person who told me, one of the ulama from Masjid-e-Nabawi Sharif, Sheikh Hassan Brake, Rahatul Ali,
he said to me,
the interesting thing was that those who normally do Rafaydayn did not,
and those who never do Rafaydayn, they were doing Rafaydayn.
Out of akhlaq and out of regard for their brothers and sisters,
brothers who were there from another madhab, and out of respect for the imam of that madhab.
Now this is the akhlaq of the Muslim, right?
Not getting stuck in one place and saying that, no, I am Hanafi, I am Shafi’i, I am this.
No, Alhamdulillah, we follow the kitab and sunnah.
Alhamdulillah.
And all the imams follow the kitab and sunnah.
And therefore we follow the imam, not because of the imam, but because of the kitab and sunnah.
There’s another very famous and very beautiful story about Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Rahatul Ali.
Right?
One of the great ones.
Now, Imam Ahmad’s madhab, he had ruled that if you eat camel meat, you must make wudhu.
That eating camel meat breaks your wudhu.
So this is the ruling in the Hanbali madhab.
Now the story goes that Imam Ahmad himself was present in Masjid al-Nabi al-Sharif, where he was the imam.
And a Maliki scholar came to visit him.
So they had lunch and camel meat was served.
And after lunch, for Salatul Asr, when they got up, Imam Ahmad asked the Maliki scholar to lead.
And he led the Salah and Imam Ahmad prayed behind him.
Now his people were there, the students and so on.
Later on, they asked him, they said,
Ya Sheikh, how did you pray behind this man?
Because he has no wudhu.
According to your ruling, a man eats camel meat, his wudhu is broken.
And this man ate camel meat, so his wudhu was broken.
And he did not make wudhu.
And he just stood for Salah and you prayed behind him.
How do you do that?
How can you pray behind somebody who has no wudhu?
Imam Ahmad gave a very beautiful response.
He said, if instead of this man,
if it had been Malik bin Anas ,
the Imam on whose ruling this man is following,
if instead of the man, if it was Imam Malik bin Anas who had been here,
and if he had led the Salah, would I have prayed behind him or not?
This is the beauty of this Deen.
And this is the humility and the Tawadih and the understanding.
The akhlaq of the Imams.
The real people with real knowledge.
Right?
Instead of that, we have people who get stuck on small matters,
and then they make noise about it, and they fight among themselves.
All of these are signs of Jaharath, signs of lack of knowledge.
So this is my nasiha to you, InshaAllah.
I ask Allah SWT to help us to follow this Deen.
In a way that pleases Him and which is good for our dunya wa al-akhirah.
Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma’in.
Bi Rahmatullah khair.
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