There is unanimous agreement among the consensus of the scholars of the Sunna (may Allah be pleased with all of them) that all of the schools of thought (madhaahib) of the Muslims are upon the truth. Abd'l-Wahaab 's-Sha`arani said in his al-Bahr 'l-Mawruud Fi 'l-Mawaatheeq wa 'l-`Uhuud, "If those who argue without knowledge were to analyze the situation they would find that everyone of the schools of thought of the Muslims are embodied within the shari`a and not a single idea of their opinions retract from it, as I have clarified in the preface of my book called Kashf 'l-Ghumat `An Jamee`i 'l-'Umma, "He also said in his al-Yawaaqeet wa 'l-Jawaahir, "I have, with the help of Allah, traced the proofs of the mujtahideen and have not found a single branch from the branches of their schools of thought except that it was reliant upon sound proof. This is regardless whether that proof was a Qur'anic verse, prophetic tradition (hadeeth), historical narrative (athar), or sound deduction by anology (qiyaas saheeh) based upon a sound root.

Shaykh Uthman Dan Fodio