Should a beginner student of knowledge be advised to study a specific school of jurisprudence and master it, or should he look into determining the stronger position and compare the evidence?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, should a beginner student of knowledge be advised to study a school of jurisprudence, adhere to it, and master it, or should he look into determining the stronger position and compare the evidence?

Answer:
What Allah willed. This one wants to walk before he can even crawl. No, that is not right. First of all, you must read the summaries and understand them, because they are the entrance and gateway to knowledge, and you do not study all the schools of jurisprudence. Take one school from the schools of the four Imams. Take one school and study its summaries with the scholars of knowledge, progressing through them step by step. As for determining the stronger position and looking into the evidence, that comes later, once you have become proficient, once you have accumulated a body of knowledge. Then you look into determining the stronger position and look into scholarly disagreement. But if you look into scholarly disagreement and the evidence from the very beginning, you will lose your way and not achieve anything. Yes.