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This is the only one I can think of on top of my head: Shaykh Yusuf bin Sadiq - https://youtube.com/@thehanbalischool2265?si=ANiltN_ZTgWAk2dQ.

This is something you are going to have to do more investigation of.

 

Suggest Hanbali Sunni scholars on YouTube?

 

You're welcome brother. My advice is that you sit with trustworthy Sunni Hanbali scholars (not Wahhabis) and learn the Fiqh in its entirety and practice it to the teeth.

 

Thank you for the response. I am not a revert, but you may say I'm new to studying the Deen, hence why I choose Hanbali Madhab. I respect the time you've taken to explain and appreciate it.

 

All four madhabs are rivers from the same source (the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ). Based on this, you cannot say that one is “better” than the other.

We will find out on the Day of Judgment which madhab had the correct opinion regarding a ruling, with the Imam of that madhab being rewarded twice. While the one with the “incorrect” ruling receiving one reward. If you logically think about this, all four madhabs will balance each other out in terms of reward, like 4 equal corners of a square.

As for saying one is more authentic than the other, that is also incorrect because of the example I gave in the beginning. All four schools have been authenticated by the source (the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ).

Lastly, you cannot say one is the simplest or simpler than the others. There are some rulings that are stricter in one madhab, while laxer in another. There is no real concept of simplicity here, rather it’s all about adherence to the Shari’ah.

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As an aside, I knew of a Desi brother who grew up in a Hanafi family and surrounded by Hanafis in his community. For whatever reason, he decided to go and become Hanbali. I’m not against it because he went overseas and studied with Hanbali scholars. But what I am against is what Maulana Abu Hasan is trying to convey, in that laypeople just decide which madhab they want to follow based on their whims and surroundings. Of course, if you are a convert that is a different story.

I have observed that the Wahhabi dominated narrative in the Ummah for the last 100 years or so has put the Hanbali madhab on the spotlight because that is the madhab of their cult leaders (MIAW and IT). This also causes many innocent Sunnis to fall under their influence and feel compelled to change madhabs from Hanafi-Shafi’-Maliki to Hanbali. For example, an innocent Hanafi Sunni kid hangs around with Wahhabi Arabs and they constantly tell him the things he is doing in prayer are wrong. So now this kid will question everything and feel compelled to abandon the Hanafi way and pray the way they do.

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One last point. I spoke to my teacher last night about an observance I’ve seen in our times, and that is an antagonism to the Hanafi madhab and more specifically to Imam-e-Azam Abu Hanifah (radhi Allah ta’ala anh). He explained to me that it is a natural phenomenon because if you look at it this way, Imam-e-Azam was the most senior of the Imams and his deductions were the strongest that you can find. In addition, his wisdom, foresight, and piety was incredible. If you look at it closely, it’s almost as if Imam-e-Azam is on one side, and all the other Imams (including his own students Qadi Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad) on the other. Example – the 18 degrees ruling for Fajr and Isha.

Just to add some more honor to the Hanafi madhab, there are narrations that the madhab of Imam Mahdi (radhi Allah ta’ala anh) will closely resemble that of the Hanafi madhab. Take from that what you will.

 

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See, you don't even know, and yet you somehow think you can pass judgement on which of the four maddhabs is the best.

 

Ask a scholar.

The response to your questions and correction of you false understanding, and advice not to follow the ignoramus Asian Muslim scholars of today.


how do you know? are you a scholar? how many books of hadith have you read in arabic?

No I am not a scholar. I don't need to inform you to anyone if what I read and not. How do I know? I have asked Sunni shaykhs from different madhabs and tariqas who all have confirmed and clarified that it IS permissible to follow a Madhab of one's choice and not to follow what people follow.

There are many fake and ignorant barelwis claiming to be Sunnis but do not follow the true teachings of Islam especially some followers of Imam Ahmad Rida Khan. Hanafi is NOT the easiest Madhab, it is Hanbali.

 

Ask a scholar.

 

how do you know? are you a scholar? how many books of hadith have you read in arabic?
anyone who has is incapable of reading an arabic book has no standing to comment on a madh'hab being "authentic".

so don't delude yourself. i have myself read some well known hanbali fiqh works and am familiar with hanbali fiqh - though i do not claim any level of expertise. just familiar, and have read them to see how it compares with my madh'hab, the hanafi madh'hab.

ideally, a madh'hab should not be chosen on whims. one should see if there are scholars available - material available (if one is incapable of reading arabic works) - etc.

simplest, better than other three, authentic are all claims of someone who has no clue - and has probably picked this up trawling on the web.

the hanafi madh'hab is the simplest - but we believe that all four are authentic and 'better' is a subjective opinion.

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the above i have said as advice to a brother - no other madh'hab is as extensively researched as the hanafi madh'hab. and the testimony to this is the list of fiqh and fatawa works in the madh'hab over centuries which outnumber all the other three madhahib.

of course, anyone can follow any of the four madh'habs - but it must not be because one fancies it. one needs to have proper justification. for example, my family, forefathers, people i grew up with, my teachers were all hanafi. so by default we were hanafis. and when i began to read about it, i did not see any reason why i must leave this - on the contrary, i find this to be the most well-researched, practical and grounded madh'hab. yet, among some of the greatest ulama i admire and often refer to are shafiyis - bayhaqi, nawawi, the subkis, ibn hajars, suyuti, shaykh al-islam zakariyya al-ansari, sha'arani and others; our grandshaykh - sayyiduna ghawth al-azam is a hanbali; qaDi iyaD, qurtubi, imam shadhili, sayyidi ibn aTayillah among malikis (to name a few).

so we do not have prejudice - we respect ulama of all madh'habs, but we stick to the research of our madh'hab.

Allah knows best

 

Just curious, how do you buy stuff online and in the malls as a hanbali? And what do you do about alcohol in medicine, household products, etc?

 

You are completely mistaken. Any Muslim can follow any "one" of the four madhabs. I am not a blind follower! I choose to follow hanbali as this is the most simplest, authentic and better than the other three.

 

because a madh'hab is not chosen on whims. it is not a shopping experience: 'lets get an iphone'.

are you a new muslim? or a born again muslim?

 

Why not?

 

why?

 

My parents are not hanbalis, neither did I grow up as a hanbali. I myself chose to follow hanbali way.

 

is it that you are hanbali because of your parents or teachers?
did you grow up among hanbalis?

 

Yes

 

are you a hanbali?

 

Is this book suitable for hanbali madhab Muslims?