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Should the Imam be considerate and not do certain actions if the followers are from a different

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Answered by Shaykh Amjad Rasheed

Is it disliked for a Shafi`i to not recite the du’a qunut of fajr out loud sometimes, because most of his followers are hanafis and malikis so that they can see that he respects their school of thought?

Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

As our Shaykh al-Khatib [of Tarim] said, the dislike of not reciting the qunut out loud is the evident position.

As for the followers, the basis is that this school is that of an acknowledged mujtahid Imam who was held in great esteem and one must take him into consideration in the same way that they want their madhhabs to be taken into consideration. So everyone must have adab (good manners) with the ijtihad* of the acknowledged scholars by not objecting to other madhhabs and their followers.

Amjad Rashid

[Translated by Shazia Ahmad]

*Independent legal judgment based on the four sources of law

السؤال: هل يكره للشافعي تركُ الجهر بقنوت الفجر أحياناً ؛ لأنَّ أكثر المقتدين به أحناف ومالكية ليروا أنه يحترم مذهبهم ؟ الجواب : الظاهرُ كما قال شيخُنا الخطيب كراهةُ ترك الجهر بالقنوت ، وأما بالنسبة للمقتدين فالأصلُ هو بيانُ أن هذا مذهبُ إمامٍ مجتهدٍ معتبرٍ فلا بدَّ من مراعاته كما يطلبون هم مراعاةُ مذاهبهم ، فعلى الجميع الأدب مع اجتهادات العلماء المعتبرة بترك الاعتراض عليها وعلى مقلديها . 

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