Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

ibn Ḥanẓalah al-Tamīmī; his companionship of Nabī H is established,
but he is not reported to have narrated a ḥadīth from him. 1
4.
Deeming the transmission of ḥadīths from him a requisite for
companionship is improbable in terms of language and convention.
Because they neither inherently include it nor do they suggest it. 2
The Fourth Position
A Ṣaḥābī is:
من أقام مع النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم سنة أو سنتين وغزا معه غزوة أو غزوتين
A person who stayed with Nabī H for a year or two, and participated
with him in one or two expeditions. 3
This is the narrowest of all the positions. It is said to be the position of Saʿīd ibn
al-Musayyab but is not confirmed from him. 4
In reality this position also reflects the requisiteness of extended companionship
which brings about a change in a person in terms of his conduct and traits, etc. 5
This position is also flawed for the following reasons:
1.
Deeming extended companionship a requisite is against the unanimity of
the linguistics.
1 Al-Istīʿāb 2/531
2 Fawātiḥ al-Raḥamūt 2/158.
3 Al-Kifāyah fī ʿIlm al-Riwāyah p. 50; al-Manhal al-Rawī p. 111; Tadrīb al-Rāwī 2/211; Irshād al-Fuḥūl p.
129.
4 In its transmission appears Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Wāqidī who has been impugned by many
ḥadīth scholars. See: al-Taqyīd wa al-Īḍāḥ p. 297; Fatḥ al-Mughīth 3/211.
5 Tadrīb al-Rāwī 2/211.
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