What are the references followed by the one who practices taqlid?

The questioner : The question: This relates to the topic of taqlid, especially since it is common, or people often repeat, and have done so for a long time, that the disagreement occurring among scholars, particularly in a single issue, can reach the point of contradiction between the opinions: one saying it is forbidden, another saying it is obligatory, another saying it is disliked, another saying it is recommended, and so on. Our brother here, and perhaps the questioning brother, may Allah praise him, is eager for his religion and for understanding his religion, and for adopting the opinion that requires following or acting upon in his religion and his creed. So the brother asks: What are the references that the one who practices taqlid can, meaning he says, follow, but how can he know from them how to follow the opinions of the differing scholars, or adopt one of the opinions of the differing scholars, whether in fiqh or in authenticating and weakening hadiths?

The Shaykh : This is a question that actually requires writing a book, but I say that Allah the Exalted has made a cause for every thing. And knowledge, as I mentioned in a previous word,
from his saying (peace be upon him) So a person begins by learning the alphabet and progresses like this, little by little. So the student of knowledge, we say, in answer to some of the explanation our brother Abu Malik provided, may Allah reward him with good: taqlid, contrary to what many of our brothers who share with us in following the Book and the Sunnah imagine, is a necessity. Taqlid is a necessity. When the teacher of young children says, "This extended line is an alif, and this one with a dot above is a ba, then a ta," and so on, he receives this through taqlid; he does not understand anything, and so he receives it until he reaches the point where he can read a compound word made of letters, and so on. Then he begins to receive fiqh. The fiqh he receives, he receives it from his teacher, regardless of the level of knowledge of this teacher; he may be in need of a teacher himself, but without a doubt, this teacher is of benefit to this student of knowledge and provides him with knowledge. So it is necessary for everyone who seeks knowledge to seek it through a sequential path. If the student of knowledge wants to reach the level of knowing the Shari'ah rulings by their evidence as stated in the Book and the Sunnah, this undoubtedly requires studying the science of usul al-fiqh, the science of usul al-hadith, and the science of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil. This requires years and long, very long years. Therefore, we advise our brothers, the students of knowledge, that it is not permissible for them to leap up to climbing toward ijtihad and, in their claim, escaping from taqlid, because this ijtihad necessarily requires taking the means that enable them to know the Shari'ah rulings by their detailed evidence. Yes. In our mosque nearby? In a nearby mosque? Do you mean? If Allah wills. Yes, in any case.