Ruling on Following the Dispensations of Jurists

Question:
If you follow one of the schools of jurisprudence, such as the Hanbali school, for example, am I required to adopt the dispensations in the other schools?

Answer:
You must follow the evidence, not the dispensations. Some of the Salaf said: Whoever follows the dispensations will become a Zindiq. Every school contains some errors, some mistakes by some of its followers, or by the imam to whom it is attributed, where he erred in some narrations, or where some hadiths were hidden from him. Therefore, the student of knowledge does not follow the dispensations.
And if there is scholarly disagreement in the issue, and it is not a matter of scholarly consensus, then there are treatises among the scholars. The student of knowledge seeks out the evidence and looks at the opinion that is closer to the evidence, or the stronger in evidence, and he adopts what the evidence supports, not by following the dispensations.