Is it obligatory for a student of knowledge to follow a specific school of jurisprudence at the beginning of his pursuit of knowledge?

Question : Is it obligatory for a student of knowledge to follow a specific school of jurisprudence at the beginning of his pursuit of knowledge? And if so, which school of jurisprudence should he follow? Is it the school of his country, or the school of the philosophy through which knowledge passes?

Answer : It is not obligatory for a person to follow a specific school of jurisprudence, except the Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). However, at the beginning of the pursuit of knowledge, one is not able to distinguish the stronger position from the weaker one. Therefore, he follows what his teachers were upon until he knows the stronger position from the clear one, and then he rules by what he sees as the stronger position.