Beware of adopting many lenient opinions

Imām Ibn ʿAbdulbarr al-Mālikī (d. 463 هـ) transmitted consensus against adopting many lenient opinions:

أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ، ثنا قَاسِمُ بْنُ أَصْبَغَ، ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍ، ثنا الْغِلَابِيُّ، ثنا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ قَالَ: قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ

ʿAbdulwārith informed us: Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh narrated us: Aḥmad bin Zuhayr narrated us: Al-Ghilābī narrated us: Khālid bin al-Ḥārith narrated us, he said: Sulaymān at-Taymī said:

لَوْ أَخَذْتَ بِرُخْصَةِ كُلِّ عَالِمٍ اجْتَمَعَ فِيكَ الشَّرُّ كُلُّهُ

If you were to adopt the ruḫṣa (lenient opinion) of every scholar, all evil would be gathered in you.

وَذَكَرَهُ الطَّبَرِيُّ، عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ غَسَّانَ بْنِ الْمُفَضَّلِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ

And aṭ-Ṭabarī mentioned it, from Aḥmad bin Ibrāhīm, from Ghassān bin al-Mufaḍḍal, he said: Khālid bin al-Ḥārith informed me, he said: Sulaymān at-Taymī said to me:

إِنْ أَخَذْتَ بِرُخْصَةِ كُلِّ عَالِمٍ اجْتَمَعَ فِيكَ الشَّرُّ كُلُّهُ

If you were to adopt the ruḫṣa (lenient opinion) of every scholar, all evil would be gathered in you.

قَالَ أَبُو عُمَرَ: هَذَا إِجْمَاعٌ لَا أَعْلَمُ فِيهِ خِلَافًا وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ

Abū ʿUmar (Ibn ʿAbdulbarr) said: This is a consensus (iǧmāʿ) concerning which I know of no disagreement. And all praise belongs to Allāh.

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