The Ruling on Rejecting Following Precedent and Inductive Reasoning, and Contenting Oneself with the Book and the Sunnah Without the Sayings of the Scholars

Question:
The questioner: What is your opinion of the one who rejects following precedent and inductive reasoning, and says, "We are content with the Book and the Sunnah, and we do not follow the sayings of the scholars"? Does his statement have any basis, or is his speech invalid?

Answer:
I have clarified this. I said that people regarding the sayings of the scholars are of two extremes and two middles. One extreme is content with the sayings of the scholars and takes them out of blind adherence, even if the evidence contradicts them. The other extreme goes to the extreme in rejecting them absolutely and does not pay attention to them, even if they are the truth.
And there is a middle path, which accepts what is true in them and leaves what is wrong in them, and this is the correct position. As for us rejecting the sayings of the Imams of Islam and the great jurisprudence they left for us, so that we may benefit from it, this is an error and misguidance. This is a division between the Salaf of the Ummah and the Khalaf, cutting the connection between the Khalaf and the Salaf. We benefit from the sayings of the Imams and are guided by them, because they help us in understanding the Book and the Sunnah. But what we know contradicts the evidence, that is what we take. This is the correct position and the one that corrects, yes.