On Fanatical Blind-Followers


The Imaam said, “The problem is between us and the bigoted blind-followers. It is not between us and the Imams of the Madhhabs … the Imams of the Madhhabs were on the Salafi methodology: [that of] the Book and the Sunnah … none of them would prioritize an opinion over the Book and the Sunnah if in their view a text from the Book and the Sunnah had been established, unlike these people—just now you heard what I am talking about, he was saying, “If there is an āyah or a ḥadīth that contradicts the Madhhab then it is taken as having been abrogated.” This is elevating/exalting the madhhab over and above the Qurʾān and the Sunnah!

The Imams did not say this at all.

Thus the disagreement is between the Salafi daʿwah and those who [fanatically] adhere to the madhhab, and not between the Salafi daʿwah or the callers to the Salafi daʿwah and the Imams of the Madhhabs. No, we are proud that they were upon guidance from their Lord.”
Tasjīlāt Mutafarriqah, no. 85.