Clarifying the meaning of affiliation with the righteous Salaf? And is there any pre-Islamic tribalism in it, as in some of the old schools of thought and affiliations?

The Shaykh : So, affiliation with the righteous Salaf contains no element of pre-Islamic tribalism, which often manifests in some of the old sectarian affiliations and some of the modern partisan affiliations. This pre-Islamic fanaticism is clearly and obviously represented in these newly invented affiliations, because their effects appear, and indeed their effects have appeared over this long period up to the present day. For example, if we study the pre-Islamic tribalism that occurred in the fanaticism of some of the sectarians who affiliate themselves to one of the imams, we would see the most astonishing things, and we would find that these people are as if our Lord, Glorified and Exalted is He, commanded them to do so, and did not forbid them with something like His saying, Glorified and Exalted is He: . We have found in some of the schools of thought a case where someone was asked: Is it valid for a Hanafi to marry a Shafi'i? He answered in the negative: It is not permissible. He supported his claim by saying that the Shafi'is, who affiliate themselves to Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him), are in doubt about their faith when they are asked, "Are you a believer?" and they say, "If Allah wills." So the person asked, following his school of thought, ruled that these Shafi'is who answer the question, "I am a believer, if Allah wills," are in doubt about their faith. They said: Whoever is in doubt about his faith has committed disbelief. So how can a Shafi'i girl marry when she is in doubt about her faith?! This is a real matter, not an imagination that can be defended; it exists in the depths of the books to this day. And the full problem is that it appears to be mercy on the surface, but its inner reality is torment. The full problem is that after that, the mufti who came later, a man from the senior scholars of the Hanafis, known as Abu al-Sa'ud, the mufti of the two groups, who has a printed and well-known book of tafsir today, was asked the same question: Is it permissible for a Hanafi to marry a Shafi'i? He answered in the affirmative, but he provided a reason. One wishes that this mufti had remained with the previous opinion, where he said: It is permissible for a Hanafi to marry a Shafi'i by treating them as the People of the Book. And every person with knowledge of jurisprudence knows that this answer is a double affirmation, because he says: It is permissible for a Hanafi to marry a Shafi'i, but it is not permissible for him to marry a Hanafi woman to a Shafi'i, by treating them as the People of the Book. It is permissible for a Muslim to take from the women of the People of the Book, but it is not permissible for him to marry his daughter to a man from the People of the Book. So this is recorded in the books. This arose due to sectarian fanaticism and affiliation to a person or a group that belongs to this person. And as a natural result, the other group, the... to whom the fatwa was issued—the two previous fatwas are contradictory, sometimes it is permissible and sometimes it is not permissible—I mean the Shafi'i school—some of their followers did not stand with folded hands toward that sectarian fanaticism. So they engaged in fanaticism for another fanaticism, where some of them would pass by a mosque that was not on their school of thought, but on a school contrary to theirs, and say: "Has not the time come for this church to close its doors?". Indeed, some of the famous imams from the Shafi'is, we find today in the world of publications a treatise under the title: The Right School of Thought, meaning the school of Imam al-Shafi'i. And he brings there whatever evidence he wishes to support the school of thought he has adopted. There is no harm in a person expressing his opinion and supporting it, free from fanaticism and desire. But when a person looks at this book, he finds that the book is free from being free from desire. For it mentions the following story: "It is mentioned that a man from the princes of the Shi'ah in Cairo wanted to become a Sunni, to enter the school of the people of the Sunnah and the community. So all the famous scholars of the two schools at that time, the Hanafis and the Shafi'is, surrounded him, and each of them tried to draw the prince to his school. They said to him: You must adopt a school of thought after Allah has guided you to the Sunnah." This is exactly what happened in Japan in the modern era. Perhaps you all know that Islam is today spreading among the various peoples on the face of the earth, albeit slowly. And among these peoples is Japan. A large section of them entered Islam decades ago. And there were, without a doubt, people from all Islamic categories, from the Shafi'is and the Hanafis, for example. There are the Indians, who are mostly Hanafi, and there are the Javanese, who are mostly Shafi'i. So these and those surrounded the Japanese who were becoming Muslim and said: You must become a Hanafi, because the Hanafi school is the school of the greatest imam. And the Shafi'is, for example, the Javanese, say: You must adopt the school of Imam al-Shafi'i, because Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i al-Mutalibi is an Arab, and so on. "And everyone claims a connection to Layla"