Doubt: Some people have partisanship in following their Madhab and they Deny the Sunnah

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This is one of the  worst ways of how Fitnah is being introduced into the religion.

What is upon us is to give precedence to the Sunnah before anyone else’s statement, otherwise ones Eemaan may become tainted. The Imaams of Islaam have commanded their followers to follow the Sunnah, so creating this partisanship (based one ones school of thought, or splitting off based on ones ‘Aqeedah etc.) in their name would be something they are completely disassociated from.

Imaam Abu Hanifah (May Allaah have Mercy on him)  said, "When a Hadeeth is found to be Saheeh, then that is my Madhhab." 

[Reported by Ibn 'Aabideen in al-Haashiyah (1/63)]

Imaam Maalik (May Allaah have Mercy on him) said, “The view of any one of us may be accepted or rejected, except the occupant of this grave (meaning the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is to be followed regardless), and then he pointed at the grave. 

[Reported by Ibn 'Abdul-Barr in Jaami' (2/91), originally from the statement of Ibn 'Abbaas (May Allaah be Pleased with him)]

Likewise partisanship in ‘Aqeedah is also a problem. For example, some deny the Names and Attributes of Allaah (or some of them). They reject what is clear in the Sunnah which explains our ‘Aqeedah and they resort to giving it meanings or they do Ijtihaad (analogy, derive a judgement etc.) and thus have decided to dishonour the Sunnah of the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him].

A party (or a Hizb) is defined as a sect that when the Sunnah comes to them, they don’t leave the Hizb they are part of. These people deny the Sunnah and they try to make Ta’weel (give an alternative explanation to what is clear in the texts), and they end up blindly sticking to their Manhaj (methodology) and misguidance in order to support their Hizb. This is completely contrary to the Sunnah.