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Abu Zakariya
May I also add that blind following of a School of Thought is to be avoided. It's okay to follow a school, but if the school says one thing and an authentic hadith say another thing, then one shouldn't blindly follow his/her school.
Bro i'd just like to say this point is not very valid. I've heard brothers (who call themselves "salafi") say what you have to followers of one of the 4 madhabs. For example the raising of hands before ruku, hanafees don't do that. Now just as you have said, i've heard brothers say that there are authentic hadeeth in Sahih Bukhari saying you should do this, so they hanfees are wrong. But when you go to a scholar of the Hanafee Madhab, he'll say we have an authentic hadeeth where it says the Prophet PBUH did not do that. And i've even seen Shafi' Malaki and Hanablee scholars agree with the hanafees saying it is an authentic hadeeth aswell.
We have to remmeber the schools of thoughts are not just the works of Imam Abu Hanifah Imam Shafi Imam Malik or Imam Ahmad, but it's the extensive research carried out by thousands of scholars
who devoted their life for this noble cause.
So i'd just like to say i disagree with you, since following a school of thought blindly or not, you will be following authentic hadeeth, it they weren't authentic, i'm sure the thousands and thousands of scholars who have been followers of the madhabs for over the last 1000 years would have noticed by now. It's illogical to say they would have noticed unauthentic hadeeth and let it pass
Either way i don't think this is the time or place for a discussion like this as "sect" issues are banned here