Are the known, followed schools of jurisprudence considered among the sects mentioned in the hadith of the schism?

The Shaykh : As for the second question, we consider any group or faction that insists on contradicting the Book and the Sunnah, in the Salafi sense, and I say insists on it with the Shami expression, "you, you," meaning stubbornness and persistence, such a group can be considered a faction among the factions and a sect among the misguided sects. But the four Imams and their early followers, and I mean what I am saying, cannot be lumped into any of these factions at all; because their methodology was, first, the Book and the Sunnah and following what the righteous Salaf were upon. And unfortunately, I say, the most famous of the four Imams for being somewhat distant from the Sunnah is Imam Abu Hanifah, and I acknowledge this. But in my belief, that was not out of stubbornness or opposition to the Sunnah on his part, but rather because his grasp of the Sunnah was within a very narrow circle due to his preoccupation and immersion in deriving rulings from the texts of the Book and the hadiths that had reached him. Therefore, opinions that contradict the Sunnah are frequent from him. As for his stance on this condition you noted, which is adhering to what the Salaf, particularly the Companions, were upon, he is famous for this. He says: "When a statement comes from the Companions, it is upon the head and eyes. But when they differ, we are human and they are human, so we take from where they took." So he is the closest of the Imams in whom one might say this, yet still, nothing can be said about him at all, because his methodology does not contradict the methodology of the righteous Salaf at all. But the later followers became fanatical for him, just as the followers of the other Imams also became fanatical for them. The conclusion is that we can, with complete frankness, lump together the fanatics among the school followers who prefer taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) of the school, and I wish it were the school of the first Imam, I wish it were so, because they follow the statements of the later ones among them. And many of them, when we confront them with the statements of the Imams themselves, explicitly say: "We do not take the statements of the early Imams; we take the statements of the later Shaykhs, because these later ones studied the statements of the Imams and therein is the stronger and the weaker position, so they clarified the matter." Therefore, they do not follow the Imams themselves, but the later ones among them. These fanatics for the statements of their later Imams contradict the texts of the Book and the Sunnah in this regard, and it is possible to consider them sects. As for the Imams themselves, may they be far from that, may they be far from that. Perhaps this extent is sufficient.

The questioner : This extent is sufficient, and we thank His Eminence Shaykh Nasir al-Din al-Albani... a pleasant and successful journey, if Allah wills, and peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And perhaps we will meet you soon in the city.

The questioner : If Allah wills.

The Shaykh : The Noble City, and we will have other meetings with you there, if Allah wills. And peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah, and the disbelievers and the deniers... peace be upon you and the curse of Allah.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : This is, as they say...