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Taqleed Blind Following

The common people should never follow fatwas blindly because they will go astray and cause others to go astray, and a true scholar is not a muqallid, and he doesn’t call to taqleed: By al-‘Allāmah Ibn ‘Uthaimeen (Allah’s mercy be upon him)

Al-ʿAllāmah Ibn ʿUthaimeen (rahimahullāh) said in At-Taʿlīq ʿalā Muqaddimatil-Majmūʿ p. 244: “The common people should never follow fatwas blindly because they will go astray and cause others to go astray. [read on…]
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The Sayings of the Imams Concerning Following the Sunnah—and the Dispraise of Taqleed. Part 3: Imam ash-Shafi’ee, Muhammad Ibn Idrees (d. 204 AH)

As for Imām ash-Shāfiʿī (died. 204 AH, rahimahullāh), the narrations from him concerning following the Hadīth, avoiding Taqleed and opinions are the most numerous and finest. I have made this [read on…]