Shirk According to Scholars from the Four Madhhabs

The Followers of the Imaams Aboo Haneefah, ash-Shaf'ee, Maalik, Ahmad and others have exerted great effort in promoting tawheed and averting shirk. So the matter is not as some think that only the Hanbalee scholars combated innovation and the shirk of the grave-worshippers and others.
I shall not quote anything from Ibn Taymeeyah, Ibn-ul-Qayyim or from Muhammad ibn Abd-il-Wahhaab and his offspring. This is because I desired to show the concern of this serious issue with the Hanbalee scholars and to avoid it seeming as if those scholars mentioned have a monopoly on the subject and went into the issue the most, to the extent that some of the ignoramuses attach issues related to aqeedah to "Wahhabism" and the likes.