What is the ruling on following a school of jurisprudence?

The questioner : Is it also forbidden?

The Shaykh : I gave you the answer.

The questioner : I told you it is forbidden for both: the one who follows a school of jurisprudence and the one who lets his garment hang below the ankles.

The Shaykh : I gave you the answer; why are you repeating the question?

The questioner : My answer is clear that it is forbidden and that the Messenger of Allah prohibited it. As for the one who follows a school of jurisprudence, how is the prohibition? What is its evidence? The one who follows a school of jurisprudence who prefers the school over the hadith, this is forbidden, there is no doubt.

The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you! I told you it was just an introduction, but you lost it for me; that you asked me.

The questioner : Yes, it is about the intention.

The Shaykh, okay; and the words?

The questioner : And the words.

The Shaykh : Why? What is the evidence?

The questioner : The evidence is that you should not say words by which you make excuses to people. That is, from the start, you can speak the truth and not say: my intention is such and such, and my intention is such and such.

The Shaykh : Leave yourself be; is the ruling on words the same as the ruling on actions?

The questioner : I can say that actions remain greater.

The Shaykh : Here, now you have revealed your knowledge beyond your previous answer; words are actions.

The questioner : Correct.

The Shaykh : Correct; so then, this action, which is the ruling on letting the garment hang below the ankles, is like the ruling on following a school of jurisprudence. What is its interpretation? Do you know its interpretation?

The questioner : Its interpretation is that both are forbidden.

The Shaykh : The word "one who follows a school of jurisprudence."

Another questioner : What is the point of similarity between them?

The Shaykh : Both are dual forms. I have a singular term; do you know what "one who follows a school of jurisprudence" means in the speaker's speech?

The questioner : The one who follows a school of jurisprudence, as I understand it, the point of similarity is that he contradicts the hadith of the Messenger of Allah.

The Shaykh : Since , I will now tell you what my intention is; the one who follows a school of jurisprudence does not become gold [The Shaykh laughs!].

The questioner : I said the one who follows a school of jurisprudence is one who proceeds according to the school.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : Okay; the one who follows a school of jurisprudence who is wearing glasses! ... This is clear.
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The Shaykh : ... Letting the garment hang below the ankles.

Another questioner : Letting the garment hang below the ankles?

The Shaykh : He is talking about letting the garment hang below the ankles.

Another questioner : Someone is asking that ... .

The Shaykh : Because he went to Pakistan.

The questioner : ... At the Islamic University, this is how they do it; they roll up their trousers and pray ... I told him: it is forbidden inside the prayer and outside the prayer; letting the garment hang below the ankles is forbidden outside the prayer.

The Shaykh : Here, now I am forced to draw your attention to the hadith ... Do you know Allah's blessing upon you for having tested you with Al-Albani; that these are the people of hadith in India and Pakistan ... .