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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Muslim's Position on Disagreement Among Scholars

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Question:
Questions on various and numerous topics, revolving around trials and tribulations, particularly the disagreement among scholars. They ask whether the disagreement among scholars is among the blameworthy trials, and whether its occurrence and circulation among scholars is so? Is it among the trials, and how should the Muslim deal with it? What is the Muslim's position regarding the disagreement among scholars?

Answer:
Disagreement in methodology is worse than disagreement in issues. Because the methodology is one; it does not accept disagreement regarding what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was upon. However, if the disagreement is in matters of Islamic jurisprudence and derivation, then that is an open area. But one takes what is established by evidence from the statements of the scholars. The statements are presented to the evidence from the Book and the Sunnah; what agrees with the Book and the Sunnah is taken, and what contradicts it, one excuses its author, but it is not taken. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-096-موقف المسلم من الفتن|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:30)

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