can i follow both of them?
some scholars say that if you do that, it means you are following your desires.
Ibn Taymiyyah(rahimahullah) said, “According to their whims, these people sometimes follow an Imaam who permits a marriage and then follow another Imaam who disallows it. Such a practice is not at all permissible.” Fataawaa Ibn Taymiyyah (Vol.2 Pg.240).
Let start with an example is a verse of the Qur'aan that states that a
divorcee should remain in Iddah for three ‘Quroo’.
Now because the word Quroo means menstruation as well as the state of purity, some confusion may arise about whether a divorcee should wait in Iddah for three periods of menstruation to pass or for three periods of purity to.
now sh.munajjid will bring the proof imam abu hanifa(rh) and imam shafii(rh). then he wil do his own resaerch and argument.
at last he will say one rules, which is same like imam shafii(rh), but in another matter he gave rules according to imam abu hanifa(rh).
So it means we are following sh.munajjid ijtihad, and not Ijtihad of our salaf(imam abu hanifa, imam shafii, imam malik, imam hanbal(rh) and so on.
We dont follow others blindly:astag:
Everyone are more or less making taqleed...blindly!
You are making taqleed if you dont know:
1. Arabic - Because then you are restricted to the traslators interpretation(the reason being that the translator always interprets what a word with sevral meanings have in another language) and a second-hand source.
2. If you are not a muhadith knowing how to classify hadith. For example if you say al-Albani have said this hadith is sahih then you are making taqleed of al-Albanis judgement without you yourself being able to classify the hadith.
3. If you dont know 3ilm al-naseekh wa al-mansookh - the science of abrogation.
And many other points....