Re: Following one Particular Imam in every Juristic Issue
When you implement Islamic laws in a state they have to be uniform throughout the state. State can leave the issues of Salah, Zakah and Zikr to individuals and whatever they want to follow. However, i am talking about laws that pertain to social structure of society.
What about family laws, like Nikah, Talaq, custody etc.
What if a woman is Shafi'i and marries a maliki man, and they have divorce issue. Who's Fiqh will be followed?
What i have understood from reading of history is that this Fatwas of following only 1 madhab was given centuries later than the time of 4 Imams themselves. I acknowledge that the intentions were good, so that people won't "shop around" for convinient opinion, but extreme isistence on it is not warranted. Coz, this is based upon conjecture and NOT "Nus".
By the way, did Ibn Abbas or Zaid bib Thabit, insist that one that follows them has to follow in all issues or not follow them at all? Was there any such all or none principle at any time dring the time of 4 Imams?
Yes they did insist. For example :
there was an incident where People of medina came for hajj or something, and a women who did her ziara, now hewr periods came up, now before departuring she can't do al-wida, so medina people asked this ruling from Ibn Abbas r.a., but Ibn zain Thabit r.a. gave a different' ruling, and Ibn Abbas r.a. insisted that they follow zain ibn thabit r.a. because they were from medina and have been following his rulings.