In Islam we have four rightly guided schools of Sacred Law (arabic: madhhab, pl. madhahib). I follow the maliki school in my personal life, and the Tariqa Tijaniyyah, to which I belong are built up around the fiqh of Imam Malik.
Why four different schools of Sacred Law? I'll give you a short, short answer and a literature list. We have al-Quran and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (may Allah bless him, keep him). This can be seen as the text of the law. A regular, unlearned person cannot and must not take these books and extract rulings from them, because that is a complicated process. Therefore, we have the four Imams; Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam al-Shafi'i og Imam Ahmed. These brilliant minds developed consistent systems and principles for textual analysis, which resulted in different conclusions on different issues. These differences is only due to method and you cannot say "he is right and he is wrong". Their conclusions are reached using their principles and the arabic language to interprent quranic texts or hadith. As common Muslims, we choose a school and stick to it. There are room for taking opinions from other schools, but that has rules coupled to it and you should consult a well educated teacher before doing it.
And again I have to stress the fact that I'm not a shaykh. I'm just a student of the Sacred Sciences. That means I'm parrot - what I say and write is taken directly from my teachers and texts that has been explained to me.
If you want to look in to the differences of the Imams in more detail I recommend reading the book The Differences of the Imams by Shaykh al-hadith Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi, published by White Thread Press, 2004.
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