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Aqeedah Manhaj
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)

05/11/2025 Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid Comments Off on 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 Abandoning Their Sayings when They Oppose the Sunnah—and the Dispraise of Taqleed. Part 1: Abu Hanifah

16/10/2025 Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid Comments Off on The Sayings of the Imams Concerning Following the Sunnah and Abandoning Their Sayings when They Oppose the Sunnah—and the Dispraise of Taqleed. Part 1: Abu Hanifah
The first of the four Imāms was Abu Hanifah an-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit (died 150 AH, Allāh’s mercy be upon him). His students narrated from him numerous sayings with different wordings [read on…]
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Manhaj

“Why do the Salafīs say that it’s impermissible to blindly follow the Great Imāms such as Abu Hanīfah, Mālik, Ash-Shāfi’ī and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, yet they blindly follow the scholars such as Ibn Bāz, Ibn Uthaymīn, Al-Albānī, etc?” Question 4 in the Manhaj.

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Question 4: Why do the Salafīs say that it’s impermissible to blindly follow the Great Imāms such as Abu Hanīfah, Mālik, Ash-Shāfi’ī and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, yet they blindly follow [read on…]