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The Shafi’i madhab isn’t ignorant of the Sunnah, or that Hadith about the Prophet kissing his wives. Their principles/Usul Fiqh led to that ruling.Yes, but if the Madhab goes against the Sunnah, I follow the Sunnah. For example according to the Shafi’i Madhab, a man break his wudhu if he touches his wife (even without lust). But that contradicts the Sunnah, as the prophet kissed his wives before heading to the mosque to lead the prayers.
But in terms of ijtihad matters, I tend to follow the Shafi’i Madhab as it’s ingrained in us.
To say the Shafi’is is wrong, would mean you disagree with their methodologies in deriving rulings and interpreting from the Quran and Sunnah, which is the difference between them and the Hanafi, Maliki and Hanbali madhab. They didn’t just read the Sunnah of the Prophet and disagree with them. They developed their own hermeneutics, looked at the same evidence the Shafi’i madhab had, and their principles gave them a different conclusion.
You need to develop your own hermeneutics if you want to derive rulings from the Sunnah to say they are wrong, or else your opinion is subjective, based on how you feel, and isn’t rooted in logic like modernists.
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