Did the father continue to be cold toward you until the end of his life?

The questioner : Okay; regarding the father, does that mean he remained with you until the end of his life in this state?

The Shaykh : You mean in terms of being cold?
Al-Huwayni: Yes.

The Shaykh : I told you: he would come to my shop and greet me, but he would not enter the shop.
The questioner : Yes, I do.

The questioner : Yes, but O our Shaykh, regarding this; is it not considered undutifulness to parents?
" The Shaykh : And al-Hawini are laughing

The Shaykh : Some of the fanatics may assume that, those who explicitly state it, but this is undoubtedly something that no scholar in the world can say: that preferring to follow the Sunnah over the father's school of jurisprudence is considered undutifulness to parents; because undutifulness to parents, according to the scholars, is disobeying the father, disobeying his command and defying him, without there being any independent legal reasoning in the disobedience, without the independent legal reasoning being the motive for following the Book and the Sunnah. So I do not think a fair man would consider this undutifulness to parents, otherwise Ibrahim (peace be upon him) would have been undutiful to his father. Now it will be said here that there is disbelief and the oneness of Allah; so I say: Yes, but here—also—it is a recommended practice and following a scholar without knowing his evidence; so it is not permissible.