Being a student of an Aima is irrelevant. Allah can make anyone do what He wants them to do, even an unbeliever. What matters is the outcome and muhaddiths did a fantastic job of the task they were assigned by Allah.
Being a student of a teacher may be irrelevant in all other fields except Hadith. In hadith, the reliance of transmission is solely dependent on truthfulness of the transmitter. If a disciple is found lying about his Shaikh, then its consensus of Muhadiseen that all his transmissions will be rejected. If we accept your proposition that Aima e Arba were responsible for spreading Tafarkah, then we must have to deal with character of those individuals who declared them truthful and who wholeheartedly accepted their authority. Now, their can be two possibilities. First, Bukhari, Muslim and all Muhadiseen were unaware of the true character of these Aima, which makes them ignorant of highest order .Second, they were liars and concocted the biggest ever fraud in the history of ilm ul Hadith. Choice is yours.
I have tried to present my humble argument in so many ways, but it seems to me that you are stubbornly sticking to your not very thoughtful accusations. For almost 1200 years of Ahl us Sunnah, no one has ever accused Aima e Arba of spreading Tafarkah. I think, while making this accusation you have made a mistake in the heat of argumentation. Mistakes can happen from all of us, after all we are not perfect.
Their work is the foundation that is already exposing and damaging all sects as Hadith books are at finger tips of public now, in one phone app. Babay/buzurg/peer/ulema parast munkar-e-Hadith are shirnking in size as more and more turn to Quran and Hadith.
While defending work of Muhadiseen, your accusations against their Shayukhs are proving detrimental to your argument. Moreover, if following other Muslims is Shakhsiyat parasti then unfortunately, biggest Shakhsiyat parast were Muhadiseen and worst Buzurg parast are their followers. (Naoz o Billah)
Unfortunately you don't seem to believe in obtaining knowledge of Deen directly from Quran and Sunnah.
That is the worst allegation anyone can level against a Muslim. Well lets see if you will be able to prove this in the afterlife or not.
Must be reserved for ulema only! You have been brainwashed by ulema who claim that trying to understand Quran directly can lead one astray, and this is what you are trying to prove here. What is it that you lot say - how many alooms does one need to possess to understand Quran for guidance?
I dont represent any lot brother. You are doing the same thing which you are accusing to others. I dont know why anger and hatred is reflecting from your every word. Why such frustration?
There is no provision in Islam for sects and divisions. It's the so called alim who came up with this 'differences in opinion is a blessing by Allah' statement before Aima's time to justify forming their own groups.
So, in Islam we can not form groups?
Glad you cleared that. I believe in following Quran and Sunnah - which would make me a Sunni in Asool too but I do not believe in calling myself sunni (as name given to us in Quran is Muslim) and I also don't believe that calling out bidats introduced by ulema/buzurgs/babays of all sects makes me something else.
Every other sect besides Ahl us Sunnah, except few, believe that they are followers of Quran and Sunnah. What distinguishes Ahl us Sunnah from others are their theological beliefs. I am quite confident that almost all your beliefs would be more or less similar to Ahl us Sunnah. If we call ourselves Sunni to spread hatred, tafarkah and insult based on our beliefs between Muslims then surely we are wrong. However, if we just call ourselves Sunni for the purpose of stating our theological beliefs then there is no harm in it. Islam doesn't stop us from making political, cultural, ethnic or religious groups. However, it does stop us from spreading Tafarkah based on our associations. Our first and most important identity is Islam and this identity is above all other identities, even it is above our national identity. This is my understanding of the issue.
bidats introduced by ulema/buzurgs/babays of all sects makes me something else. I will take any explanation of any Aima or listen to any alim of any sect as long as I have clear and complete references to Quran and Hadith (without warping of context) to verify. Allah instructs us to refer to Him (Quran) and Prophet (S.A.W) (Sunnah - Hadith) when there are differences - I try my best to follow this command.
Agreed.
I also do not believe all the sects to be wrong in everything however each group has taken firm stances on a fair number of acts and beliefs leading them to become bidati in accepting or rejecting these acts/beliefs. You know very well every sect and I have given some examples. Despite being born in Hanafi family, I believe this sunni sect is the worst one of all sunni sects.
You are entitled to hold your beliefs.
Prophet (S.A.W) delivered us the complete Deen. And Deen is preserved in Quran and Sunnah only. There are no ifs and buts in this. Qazi Abu Yusuf was a a very close disciple of Abu Hanifa and it was him who ordered torture of Imam Maalik for going against the forced divorce validation fatwa issued by him. So the whole narrative of 'disciples of Aimas' is false and this is a big curse that severely damaged the Ummah. It goes from disciples of Aima to their disciples to their disciples and it is never ending, making the fissures larger with each generation past. Good and bad disciples are for all to see.
I am not making my argument based on Qazi Abu Yousaf and what he may have done. I am basing my argument on the association of Ashab ul Hadees to these Aima. If Imam Malik, Imam Muhammad, Imam Shafai and Imam Ahmad bin Hambal were involved in spreading tafarkah then their disciples can not be exempted from the allegation.
Abu Hanifa was a disciple of Ata Ibn Abi Rabah, who was one of the earlier muhaddiths and he used to do Raful Yadain (Hadith he recorded on it and his conversation with Abu Hanifa on it is in books). But Abu Hanifa rejected and even mocked Raful Yadain (as recorded in Juz Raful Yadain by Imam Bukhari). And Abu Hanifa held him in the highest regards yet differed with him on such a major Sunnah!
Abu Hanifa was not alone, Sahaba also differed on that issue. If you want to discuss issue of Raful Yadain then we can discuss in seperate thread.