Courtesy of my brother and friend, Kamran Abdul Qayyum, who told me that we can use this answer when a person, who regards himself as a Salafi, questions us about following a madhab
Question asked to Shaykh Bin Baz:
Is it correct that the Hanaabilah are the only Salafi’s? And what is the reality of as-Salafiyyah?
This is not a correct statement; for indeed the Salaf us-Saalih (the pious predecessors) are the Sahaabah may Allah 
be please with them, and whosoever followed their way, from the Taabi?een and the atba?at-Taabi?een, from the Hanafees and the Maalikees and the Shaafi?ees and the Hanbalees; and other than them from those whom traversed upon the truth and adhered to the mighty Book and the pure Sunnah (Shaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin Baz courtsey of fatwaislam)
Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Uthaimeen mentions Taqleed is done in two cases:
1) when the muqallid is an aamee (a common person) who does not have the ability to aquire knowledge of the shariyah ruling by himself. So taqleed is obligatory upon him, due to the saying of Allah ‘ask the people of knowledge if you do not know.’ So he does taqleed of one whom he considers to be a person of knowledge and piety. If there are two such people who are equal in his view, then he chooses any one of them.
2) The mujtahid when he encounters a new situation, for which an immediate solution is required, but it is not possible for him to research into this matter. So in this case he is permitted to perform taqleed.(Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Uthaimeen Source: Al-Usool min `Ilimil Usool)
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