It might be pertinent to mention here that to criticize any companion of Rasoolullah sallalaahu `alyhi wa Sallam is the height of fisq.
Rasoolullah sallalaahu `alyhi wa Sallam said:
إذا رأيتم الذين يسبون أصحابي فقولوا: لعنة الله على شركم
"If you see those who criticize my companions, say to them "May the curse of Allah be on the evil of you"
and He sallalaahu `alyhi wa Sallam said:
إذا رأيتم الذين يسبون أصحابي فالعنوهم
"If you see those who criticize my companions, curse them"
and He sallalaahu `alyhi wa Sallam said:
لا تسبوا أصحابي فوالذي نفسي بيده لو أن أحدكم أنفق مثل أحد ذهباً ما بلغ مد أحدهم ولا نصيفه
Do not criticize by companions for by the one in whose hands is my life, was any one of you to spend in charity a quantity of gold equal in size to the Uhud mountain, it would not reach the reward of a mudd or a naseefah of any of them
and He sallalaahu `alyhi wa Sallam said:
إن مثل أصحابي في أمتي كالملح في الطعام لا يصلح الطعام إلا بالملح
The example of my companions in the ummah is that of salt in a meal. A meal is not right if it does not have salt in it.
Shaikh ul Islaam Ibn Hajr al-'Asqalaani Rahimahullah in the preface of al Isaabah quotes Imam Abu Zura'h ar-Razi Rahimahullah (d.264 H) he said:
اذا رأيت الرجل ينقص أحد من أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فاعلم أنه زنديق, وذلك أن الرسول حق, والقرآن حق, وما جاء به حق, وانما أدّي إلينا ذلك كله الصحابة, وهؤلاء يريدون أن يجرحوا شهودنا, ليبطلوا الكتاب والسنة, والجرح بهم أولى, وهم زنادقة
(الإصابة: ص 10, ج 1)
When you see a man who criticizes any one of the companions of Rasoolullah (Sallalaahu Alyhi wa Sallam) then know that he is a zindeeq (Disbeliever who claims to be Muslim). The reason is that the Rasoolullah (Sallalaahu Alyhi wa Sallam) is Truthful and the Quraan is Truthful and what Rasoolullah (Sallalaahu Alyhi wa Sallam) was sent with is the Truth, and these things have been brought to us by the Sahaabah (Radhi Allaahu Ta'ala 'anhum). The Sahaabah (Radhi Allaahu Ta'ala ‘anhum) are our witnesses to this therefore whosoever discredits or ridicules any one of them intends to discredit the Quraan and the Sunnah. Therefore these people are themselves worthy of criticism and they are Zanaadeeq.
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