From the 1920s onwards, Rida and his disciples would conceptually expand ""Salafiyya"" in a legal sense. In 1924, Rida described himself in the following terms: “I am a Salafi Muslim; I do not blindly follow any particular religious scholar and am not a partisan of any particular "mujtahid".” Rida claimed to directly use scriptural proofs on legal issues, as the "Salaf" had done. Rida's disciples too began promoting the term in the same way. In promoting the non-madhab or pre-madhab approach to Islamic law of the "Salaf", Rida and his followers, however, didn't dismiss the system of classical "Fiqh". They maintained that all four schools of law were virtuous and promoted reconciliation between them, while condemning sectarianism between schools.