In the Shafi'i school, touching a woman invalidates the wudu'. Is it a precaution for a person to follow his own school in this issue?

Question : He says: Touching a woman invalidates the wudu' according to the Shafi'i school. The position you have preferred is that it does not invalidate it. And because our people follow the Shafi'i school, if they see a man touching a woman and praying without this wudu', they criticize him. Does Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) have evidence other than the apparent meaning of the verse? And is it a precaution for a person to conform to his own school in this issue?

Answer : What I see is that the precaution is to follow the Sunnah; that is the precaution. Unless things become confusing and one is perplexed, but if there is confusion, then performing wudu' removes the confusion. At the very least, we say it serves as a renewal if he had prayed with the previous wudu'. That is good.