The Prophet's Prayer From The beginning To The End As Though ...

To sum up: I sincerely hope that no follower of an Imaam will race to condemn the principles of this
book and abandon benefiting from the sunnahs of the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) which it
contains, with the argument that they are contrary to his Madhhab. I hope that such a person will
instead consider what we have given of the exhortations of the Imaams towards the obligation to act
on the Sunnah and ignore their sayings contradictory to it. I hope also that he will realise that to
condemn the attitude of this book is to condemn whichever Imaam he is following, for we have
taken these principles from those Imaams, as we have explained. Therefore, whoever refuses to be
guided by them on this path is in great danger, for such refusal necessitates turning away from the
Sunnah, the Sunnah to which we have been ordered to refer in cases of difference of opinion and on
which we have been commanded to depend.
I ask Allaah to make us among those about whom He says,
"The answer of the believers, when summoned to Allaah and His Messenger, in order that he may
judge betweeen them, is no other than this: they say, "We hear and we obey" - it is such as these that
will attain Success. It is those who obey Allaah and His Messenger, and fear Allaah, and keep their
duty to Him, who will triumph." 63
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