Differences between different schools of thought

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Most of Pakistanis belong to the hanafi fiqh, I wanted to know the differences between hanafi, Shafi, Maliki and hanbali. Thanks.

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salam alaikum Ali

these are schools of fiqh (jurisprudence), basically telling the populous at large the rules, making it easy for people. for example formulating prayer actions and timings, setting out things. basically saving us from having to look into each individual matter through the Quran, Sunnah and opinions

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^ are there any major differences between these four fiqhs? What fiqh do ahl e Hadith follow?

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they have differences of opinion yes. not on matters concerning the basics of the religion since they are settled from from the Quran and Sunnah, but on matters of jurisprudence they do have differences of opinion. however that does not stop us highlighting the views of each other eg Imam Malik (reh) ruled ..such and such , and Imam Ahmad (Hanbal) (reh) said ...*such and such

*examples of differences would be 'trace amounts of alcohol', hanafi school ruled it permissable (in the circumstances of the fatwa which differentiated between different juices of fruits), where-as another school ruled it impermissable full stop

there might be better examples, and it may be that i have even described the above difference wrong! so be-aware

ahl al hadith use all the imams opinions often but are not formally tied to specific school of jurisprudence

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differences are normaly due to difference of preferance of certain riwayat, in this all sunnats are being followed at same time.

this difference is thus rehmat for ummah.

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^ sharmanny and baobihari thanks for your replies. The thing is that maybe my question is very basic, most of Pakistanis are Sunnis by birth but they don't know their aqaed and what's different between what they follow and the others. You can do a sample random check and the results will astound you.

Having said that if the differences are how to perform ablution, prayers, length of beard and where to tuck the shalwar none of these are big issues if you ask me. Then why is there so much misgiving and hatred amongst various schools of thoughts? The Quran has mentioned prayers, zakat and hajj etc but how to carry those activities out people find the answers from the Prophet's life and they follow one way of how he performed them. The only difference is interpretation of things and every one is following the Prophet (Sallalahu Alaihi wassalam) in carrying about their ibadah and other conduct.

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This is news to me... where in the world is there hatred among the 4 schools of thought?

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ali, there is no hatred among these school of thought,infact our big madressa have teachers from all fiqh, i witness this daily.

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i think ahle hadith take more influence from teachings of Imah Ahmad bin hanbal(radi allah ta'ala anhu)

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those who follow one out of four imams...believes in taqlid...

and ahle hadith are gair muqallid..

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the university where i used to study, deobandis and barelvis used to pray behind each other but the people belonging to ahl e hadith (lashkar e tayyaba) used to pray separately. what does that imply? maybe they didnt consider the rest to be as 'muslim' as them, and then in pakistan if you want to curse some one just call him a wahabi. what does that imply?

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http://www.paklinks.com/gs/religion-and-scripture/566946-zohrain-sunni-view.html

Go through this thread, you will get satisfactory response :slight_smile:

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ali ghair muqallidin have different view point, some consider following one imam as shirk. they are not followers of any school of thought, ahnaf,hanbalis,shafaes and malikis have no problem.

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yes i know about Pakistanis, i am one of them. imo, the years of raj and Islam not being central in our lives has had the effect you see on us. the average pakistani can be away from Islam, or he can be a layman momin depending on where you are physically stood at the time. to be fair i have seen both.

there is peace and respect between the fiqhs, insh Allah that is evident from the replies thus far. even the advice to people is follow the one your community already uses.

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Having said that if the differences are how to perform ablution, prayers, length of beard and where to tuck the shalwar none of these are big issues if you ask me. Then why is there so much misgiving and hatred amongst various schools of thoughts? The Quran has mentioned prayers, zakat and hajj etc but how to carry those activities out people find the answers from the Prophet's life and they follow one way of how he performed them. The only difference is interpretation of things and every one is following the Prophet (Sallalahu Alaihi wassalam) in carrying about their ibadah and other conduct.
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this is too difficult for me , and it seems others to answer. basically what we do is forbid evil (what Allah SWT has forbidden) and enjoin good (what Allah SWT has commanded). Not having an Islamic state does not help, it adds to compromise and the results are restricted. it naturally leads to a state of division. however i think unlike the 1st post where you had a correct usage of 'schools of thought' this time you have gone overboard by including the shia? please do not force this interpretation of schools of thought, it is not acceptable

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lashkar e tayyaba is ahl al hadith? no it must have been something else. what are you saying, you had lashkar e tayyaba at your university? thats too freakish to be true. graduate lashkars, does not make sense.
l-e-t which became known as j-e-dawa ....or something, i have seen their leader and heard his interviews from some issues a few years back. did not come across as ahl al hadith besides such an organisation would NOT be restricted to ahl al hadith. the organisation is not self made but put togather by pak army? if this is half true the influence on it would not be restricted to ahl al hadith

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if you want to curse some one just call him a wahabi. what does that imply?
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it implies immaturity, in that the allegation is that just looking at individualised evidences can lead to rash decision where-as the time served and scrutinised way of madhabs is way to go.
however let it known that the basic beliefs of ahl al hadith and the madhabs are the same. on some issues ahl al hadith say 'we do not find this' in the seerah and among the salaf, the locals say 'put this and this togather' then you will see, sort of thing

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There is no hatred amongst the 4 Sunni schools of thought.

Ironically , there is hatred between the followers of a single school - both Deobandis and Barelvis follow the Hanafi fiqh.

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As far as I know lashkar e tayyaba followers are ahl e Hadith, and yes lashkar people used to study in my university.

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Ok thanks

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i’ll go through this thread as well. :slight_smile:

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Out of subcontinent (including Afghanistan) which other countries have hanafis in majority?