When fatwas differ, whose opinion should be followed?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: There is a difference in fatwa between one scholar and another. Which one should I follow? May Allah reward you both.
Answer:
First, do not ask too many questions of everyone. If you ask a scholar whose knowledge and religion you trust, take his fatwa (scholarly legal ruling) and do not ask another and another, as some people do, and then become confused and do not know which ruling to follow. Second, if you need to ask, choose someone whose knowledge and religion you trust and ask him. May Allah the Exalted say:[An-Nahl 16:43] Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: There is a difference in fatwa between one scholar and another. Which one should I follow? May Allah reward you both.
Answer:
First, do not ask too many questions of everyone. If you ask a scholar whose knowledge and religion you trust, take his fatwa (scholarly legal ruling) and do not ask another and another, as some people do, and then become confused and do not know which ruling to follow. Second, if you need to ask, choose someone whose knowledge and religion you trust and ask him. May Allah the Exalted say:
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 2454 - عند اختلاف الفتوى برأي من يؤخذ؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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