The Ruling on Seeking Fatwas from Multiple Scholars

Question:
May Allah keep you safe. This questioner, Khalid 'Abd Allah from the Eastern Region, says: Honorable Shaykh, I ask you to issue a ruling on this question. Some of the brothers ask a Shaykh about a certain issue, then go to another Shaykh to ask him the same issue, and then move between these and those in seeking a fatwa. What is the ruling on moving between them in this way? This is playing with things. This is

Answer:
playing with religion. The questioner asking this one and that one and this one to observe the differences between the scholars and the respondents is playing with the matters of religion. It is obligatory for the one who needs to ask to choose from among the scholars one in whose religion he has trust, in whose knowledge he has trust, and in whose religion he has trust, then ask him and act on what he tells him, and not go ask another and another, because this causes confusion among the people. It is also a form of affectation, and of the confusion that muddles the people and muddles the questioner as well, so that he does not know what to do. If he had chosen a scholar from among the scholars who is distinguished by his knowledge and his religion, and asked him and took his fatwa, that would have been the correct course. Yes.