It's as Clear as Mud

[Grant]

I am thinking about Martin Adler and Sister Leonella. Why doesn't Somalia follow the Hanifi mandhab? Which mandhab does Somalia follow?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi#_note-77

[edit] Punishment for murder of a dhimmi
In all schools of Islamic jurisprudence, except the Hanafi, the maximum punishment for the murder of a dhimmi, if perpetrated by a Muslim, was the payment of blood money; no death penalty was possible. For Maliki and Hanbali schools of jurisprudence, the value of a dhimmi's life was one-half the value of a Muslim's life; in the Shafi'i school, Jews and Christians were worth one-third of a Muslim and Zoroastrians were worth just one-fifteenth. The Hanafi school, which represents the majority of Sunni Muslims, however, believes that the murder of a dhimmi must be punishable by death, citing a hadith according to which Muhammad ordered the execution of a Muslim who killed a dhimmi.[97]

A peculiar practice developed in Yemen, where Arab tribes collected jizya from Jews, offering them protection. If a Muslim from one tribe killed a Jew protected by another tribe, then the other tribe could retaliate by killing a Jew protected by the tribe of the murderer. As a result, two Jews were murdered, while no direct sanctions were imposed on the Muslims.[98]

[Grant]

Don't Somalis recognize the Hanifi mandhab?

[Niya]

Grant, Somalis follow the shaffie madhab, probably due to influence from Egypt and Yemen where our sheikhs sought further education in Islamic law.

Muslims are free to follow whichever madhab they wish.

[Grant]

Thank you, Niya. I knew there had to be a reason.