{"_id":"674b0d0d0c0b320546445fb9","title":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"My family has never adhered to a madhab. Why should I?\"}]}","question":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"I come from a Muslim family. My family on both sides never adhered to a madhab. Is this common, or is it region-dependent? Do I have to adhere to a madhab? Also, why do we have to pick one to follow if they didn't exist until after the time of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ?\"}]}","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"Not adhering to a madhhab is a relatively new phenomena. The notion of abandoning the madhahbs was spread by the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh and his student Rashid Ridha. They felt that Muslim progress was being held back by their adherence to certain traditions. However, they somehow failed to realize that undermining the authority of the madhabs opens the doors to division, anarchy, and eventual demise of the sharia because anyone with an ayah and a hadith can interpret the religion as they see fit. \"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"For the second part of your question, it is true that the four schools we have today did not come into existence until after the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) however, since the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) there was a small group of companions like Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali, Ibn Umar, Ibn Masud, Zayd ibn Thabit, Aisha (Allah be pleased with them all) whom people went to for legal fatawa. \"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"So the basic function of a madhhab has existed from day one, which is: not every Muslim is able to derive rules, so they follow those are able to. \"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"Those answers that the sahabah gave to people - that knowledge - was then passed down to the following generation, and so on until it reached the four imams, who had many students and established the schools that have survived until today. So, the imams of the madhhab did not invent anything new, they simply inherited the tradition from the previous generation, and the knowledge of the companions is incorporated into the schools of fiqh. \"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"For further reading: \"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#0047b2\",\"link\":\"http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/newmadhh.htm\"},\"insert\":\"http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/newmadhh.htm\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\" & \"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#1155cc\",\"underline\":true,\"link\":\"http://masud.co.uk/why-does-one-have-to-follow-a-madhhab-2\"},\"insert\":\"http://masud.co.uk/why-does-one-have-to-follow-a-madhhab-2\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9ff90b76658b4c232aa0","tag":"Knowledge: Madhabs","count":65},{"_id":"668d9fe70b76658b4c232896","tag":"Salaf","count":2},{"_id":"674b0d0d0c0b320546445fb7","tag":"Four Imams","count":1}],"createdOn":"2024-11-30T13:03:09.431Z"}