Question
Is it permissible for a person to follow both the Shafi'i and Hanafi schools at the same time?
Answer
I say, and with God's help: This is usually and logically impossible; because the rulings are different, so it is not possible to act on both together, but rather to prefer one over the other. This is a manipulation of religion, as they said: its beginning is sophistry and its end is heresy; because it is a prohibited concoction by consensus, and there is no benefit in it except for the waste of religion, and God knows best.