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You're sort of talking about two very different scales there. Ibn Kathir is an individual scholar whose Tafsir of the quran is extremely influential. Hanafi and Maliki are the names of two entire schools of thought. The two categories are not incompatible, i.e. no one is an 'adherent' of Ibn Kathir in the sense that one might follow one of the schools, while an avowed Hanafi or Maliki is not unlikely to read and accept the interpretation of Ibn Kathir.
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