“…Jesus—peace be upon him—when he descends, will judge according to our law, ruling by the Book and the Sunnah alone, not by anything else such as the Gospel or Hanafi fiqh and the like.” This is their statement verbatim. How could they ever cloak what they have uttered with any interpretation or excuse? Their very words indicate that ‘Hanafi fiqh and the like’ are, in their view, outside our Sharīʿah and unrelated to the Qur’an and the Sunnah.

Exposing the lies and misguidance in his comments on the marginal notes to the Abridgement of Muslim
I say: These remarks contain such brazen falsehood and deviation that they could not come from a person who respects his religion or his intellect—let alone his brothers and friends. Here is the clarification:

1. We have already shown that his claim—that we malign the schools of law and regard affiliation to them as a stigma—is a patent lie. This has been detailed earlier; we shall not repeat it. If this misguided man makes it his habit to recycle the accusation, Allah will call him to account.

2. He also says, “They have expelled the madhhabs from the realm of our Sharīʿah and from the Qur’an and the Sunnah, alleging that they are something other than these.”

Our stance toward the madhhabs
I reply: This, too, stated so absolutely, is a lie. No Muslim on earth would make such a claim. It is self-evident that the madhhabs contain a great many issues upon which Muslims agree, each supported by evidence from the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Moreover, within every school there are numerous disputed matters whose stronger view is upheld by proof from the Qur’an and the Sunnah. At the same time, however, every madhhab also includes many rulings that are based