Re: Following Madhab of 4 Imams
“Ask those who recall if you know not” (Qur’an 16:43)
There are different of opinions because there are different Hadiths. Then there are weaker Hadiths and stronger ones.
Let me ask you this.. How will you follow the “sunnah” just by reading the Hadith? You will be contradicting yourself in all of your daily actions and even prayer! Why? There are Hadiths from different narrators.. etc
Which is why the Ulema of those days had to gain as much knowledge as possible to preserve the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH).
We can’t be Salafs because those are the people who died within the first 400 years after the Prophet (PBUH).
The Salafi movement came along 1300 years AFTER the Prophet (PBUH).. does that make sense to you? I wish it doesn’t.
Which is why the Salafis contradict and can never be in a debate because at the end they will say “let us be”.