Hakikat Kitabevi Publications No: 10 answer to an enemy of islam

Ahl
as-Sunnat wa ’l-Jamâ’a have survived, others being forgotten.
Islamic scholars have reported unanimously that a statement
which disagrees with one of these four madhhabs is not sahîh. A
hadîth sherîf declares, 
‘A word which is said through ijmâ’ by my
Umma cannot be heresy!’ Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the 114th âyat
of the Sûrat an-Nisâ’, 
‘We will drag the person who deviates from
the Believers’ path along the direction to which he has deviated,
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and then We will throw him into Hell.’ It should be known very
well that it is impossible that the four a’immat al-madhhâhib and
the great scholars among their disciples might have not heard of
one of the hadîths which are sahîh. If none of those scholars based
his ijtihâd on such a hadîth, then it had been abrogated by another
hadîth or it was a kind of hadîth that had to be explained away.
None of the great men of tasawwuf deviated from the four
madhhabs. To deviate from the four madhhabs means to deviate
from Islam. When visiting the graves of Awliyâ’ and martyrs, it is
not permissible to prostrate towards their graves, to go around
their graves, to light candles on them, to perform salât there or to
gather around the graves every year like celebrating a kind of
feast, which are sinful actions ignorant people do. These have been
prohibited in many hadîths.”
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Every Muslim has to follow one of
the four madhhabs.
[2]
If a hadîth disagreeing with an ijtihâd of an
imâm al-madhhab is encountered, it should be known that it was
seen by him or by the mujtahids who were his disciples and that it
was found to be mansûkh or its soundness was not certain because
it lacked documentation. It should be thought that the ijtihâd was
deduced from another sahîh hadîth. Then, there exists no sahîh
hadîth today which is not written in the books of Ahl as-Sunna. It
should not be forgotten that for erroneous ijtihâds and those who
follow them, too, there will also be given thawâb. During the
present time there is no ijtihâd disagreeing with any sahîh hadîth,
in any of the four madhhabs. Ibn ’Âbidîn, at the beginning of the
chapter on wudû’, wrote, “It is not necessary to seek the
documentary evidences for the narrations coming from
mujtahids.” Muslims are not commanded to seek or learn the
documentary evidences of the mujtahid. They are commanded
only to follow him. The âyat above shows this fact clearly. For this
reason, it is not permissible to disapprove of any ijtihâd. To
disapprove of any ijtihâd means to disapprove the âyat or the
hadîth from which it was deduced. Everybody should believe that
his own madhhab is correct. A scholar who understands that his
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[1] Sanâ’ullâh-i Paniputî,