Ml. Saharanpuri on Shami and Badai'

When writing a fatwa, Hadrat [Ml. Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri] would often check Shami. If [Allm. Shami] would report a view [of an authority], he would consider it evidence but if it was the opinion of the author, he would not consider it evidence [in of itself]. Rather, he would critically analyse and research. He would say, ‘we are of one time -  they are men and we are men. His opinion is not evidence against us until his opinion is not supported by the view of the salaf’.

In his free time, he would often check Badai’. I have heard on many occasions Hadrat [Saharanpuri] make a lot of duas for its author [Allm. Kasani]. He would say, 'For sure, this man is a faqih and Allah almighty has created him for fiqh'.

Ml. Zafar Ahmad Sahib once asked, Hadrat [Saharanpuri] to suggest a solution which will create an affinity to fiqh. He responded,

It is the habit of muftis that they revise the book only when a request for a fatwa is made. This is insufficient and results in the answer containing many errors. The reason being, they write an answer in a hurry after checking it in one place despite the fact that in this matter there is more detail in another place which changes the ruling for the given query. Hence, to create an affinity with fiqh one should read Shami and Badai’ comprehensively. Our Hadrat Gangohi read Shami fully multiple times but [then again] at that time Badai’ was not available in print. Now I consider it necessary to review also along with Shami. The reality is that Badai’ is an amazing book. Once he said, although Shami has more derivative edicts but the principles and the why of fiqh is more in Badai’. If one creates a familiarity to [Badai’], they will get to grips with fiqh.