The Shaykh's response to those who accused him of disparaging the Hanafi school, due to what he said

The Shaykh : Yesterday I told you: Some people from Homs came to us and raised an issue, which was: How can these people understand Islam?! So I explained to them: , and this provoked a commotion that more than one person stirred up: that I had made a comment on "Sahih Muslim" regarding his statement (peace be upon him): : I added a very small footnote, just two lines: "In this is evidence that when 'Isa (peace be upon him) descends in the last of time, he will not rule by the Torah, nor by the Gospel, nor by the Hanafi school of jurisprudence or any other." The fury of some malicious people rose, and they published a writing about it, saying: He criticized the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, equating it with the Torah and the Gospel. I say: My intention with this word was: to respond to the extremists of the Hanafis and others, and specifically the Hanafis who stated in their books that 'Isa (peace be upon him) when he descends in the last of time will rule by the school of Abu Hanifa!! So I drew attention to the fact that this hadith: : means he rules by the Book and the Sunnah, as the Imams interpreted it. Therefore, he does not rule by the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. And I refuted the Jews and the Christians, stating that he also does not rule by the Torah by which 'Isa ruled while he was alive, because the Torah was not abrogated by the Book of the Gospel, but rather some rulings in it were modified. Nor does he rule by the Gospel either, because when he descends, he will be an individual from the individuals of the Ummah of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), so he rules by the Book and the Sunnah. Therefore, it is even more certain that he does not rule by the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. So they came and changed the intended meaning of this word, and attributed to my speech what had not crossed my mind. Then I said to this brother and others, I said: If we look at the matter, if the issue is one of preference, and I did not intend preference, I only intended to purify 'Isa from being a follower of a scholar (mقلid) on one hand, and to purify 'Isa from having contradicted the Shari'ah of Islam by following his previous abrogated law—this is all that I intended. But they said: No, he equated the Hanafi school of jurisprudence with the Torah and the Gospel. If I had intended that, I would have erred from another side, because if I made the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, which is the ijtihad of this Imam, and without doubt he hit the mark much and erred little or much, this is knowledge with my Lord, but it is not all correct, and it is not the revelation of the sky like the Gospel and the Torah. So if I made the Hanafi school of jurisprudence like the Torah and the Gospel, I would necessarily be in error, because either I elevated the ijtihad of Imam Abu Hanifa and equated it with the Book revealed to a Messenger of the Messengers of Allah in the Torah and the Gospel, or I lowered the two noble books, the Torah and the Gospel, to the level of the ijtihad of an Imam of the Imams of the Muslims, and no Muslim says or sees this at all. But the reality is, all that I intended was: to respond to the extremists of the Hanafis who say that 'Isa rules by the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. And whoever has doubt about this statement, I show him the text in printed and respected books: that 'Isa rules by the school of Abu Hanifa, and they have fictional stories in this area. So then, my brother, our call is directed... in brief, the summary, for the speech has lengthened, and in reality I do not want to lengthen it for my personal sake, but the subject required it, unfortunately.