UNDERSTANDING TAQLEED
FOLLOWING ONE OF THE FOUR GREAT IMAMS

By Mufti Muhammad Sajjad.

Whether or not a person should follow one of the four schools is an issue that has created much confusion among Muslims today. It is hoped this short treatise will serve to dispel much of the misinformation regarding this issue and furnish the details for why the four schools (Hanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī and Hanbalī) have such a central role in Sunnī Islām.