5 Different Schools of Thoughts in Islam

Islam is a belief which gives leadership for matters pertaining to everyone walks of life. Mostly the Holy Quran, Ahadith, and ijtihad are the causes through which Muslims get laws that control and govern both confidential and communal lives. These laws give leadership with a high opinion to worship, forbid, and all contracts and compulsions related to social affairs such as inheritance, marriage, divorce, the conduct of war and the general administration of the state. In Islam, the science of spiritual laws is called Fiqah and the specialist in this field of law is called a faqih. Based on these faqihs are resulting from the different schools of thought in Islam. These are as follows.

·         Hanafi

The Hanafi School is one of the five main schools of Sunni Islamic legal reasoning and repositories of helpful law. It was built upon the teachings of Abu Hanifa (d. 767), a commercial who studied and taught in Kufa, Iraq, and who is reported to have left behind one main work, Al-Fiqh al-Akbar. His approach towards spiritual affairs was very reliable; he focused a lot of reasoning and avoided extremes. 

·         Maliki

Led by Imam Malik bin Anas, who lived from 93H to 179H this school of thought is needier on Ahadith of the Holy Prophet compiled from side to side his companions. Imam Malik provided a moderator in the city of Madinah. His judgments are compiled in the shape of a book called al-Muwatta.

·         Shaafi

Imam al-Shafi led this school of thought. He was a follower of Imam Malik. He lived from 150H to 198H. Just like his educator, he laid huge stress on the Ahadith for the answer of any topic. He was a huge philosopher and philosopher. He had an unusual grip on Islamic principles and laws, therefore, had an outstanding understanding of legal issues.

·         Hanbali

This fiqah was headed by Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal. He lived from 164H to 241H in Baghdad. This school of thought is measured to be the most unbending and inflexible. The thought of this school of thought is to follow the Quran and Sunnah on the origin of literal commands. Followers of this school of thought usually are very severe with admiration to the ceremony of religious compulsion.   

·         Jafri

This school of thought was led by Imam Jafar ibn Mohammad al-Sadiq. He lived from 83H to 148H in Madinah. The compilation of his teachings is called usual. All his teachings were collected by his followers in 400 usual. They have been compiled by gathering facts from ahadith, Islamic philosophy, literature, ethics and Quranic basis.