Title: My question is as follows: 1) Why there was need for creations of 4 imams ? for ex. Hanifi, Shafayi, Humbali, Maliki 2)Whether such above indication (point no. 1)were given by our prophet ?(sallalahu alaihiwasallam). 3)Whom we have to follow our sahaba or imams for sunnah ? 4)What is significane of Imams(point no. 1) in Islam. 5)In future will we be getting any more Imams?
Question: Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu Dear Ulmayekiram, My question is as follows: 1) Why there was need for creations of 4 imams ? for ex. Hanifi, Shafayi, Humbali, Maliki 2)Whether such above indication (point no. 1)were given by our prophet ?(sallalahu alaihiwasallam). 3)Whom we have to follow our sahaba or imams for sunnah ? 4)What is significane of Imams(point no. 1) in Islam. 5)In future will we be getting any more Imams? I would be very grateful to you, knowing the answers of above questions. Jazhakumullahu kairah
Answer ID: 20300Posted on:
Sep 1, 2020
Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !
(Fatwa: 564/368/L=1431)
Study the book "Mutala Ghair Muqallidiyat" by Maulana Amin Safdar Saheb, and "Alkalamul Mufeed Fi Isbatit Taqlid" by Maulana Sarfaraz Safdar Khan (رحمة الله). Insha-Allah, all your objections regarding taqlid would vanish.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband, India