Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

If you want to ask about ʿAlī, then see what position he enjoys from Rasūl
Allah H; this is his position and this is the position of Rasūl Allah
H.
To which he replied, “Well, I hate him.” Ibn ʿUmar I thus told him, “Then
may Allah hate you.” 1
Likewise he told another person who asked him about ʿAlī I:
ابن عم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وحبيبه ومن أهل بيته وزوج ابنته
The cousin of Rasūl Allah H, his beloved, a member of his household,
and the husband of his daughter.
The questioner thus had no option but to remain silent. 2
On the other hand, when the other type of the Nawāṣib, those who did not
excommunicate ʿAlī I but merely reviled him and denigrated him, emerged,
those who remained of the Ṣaḥābah M did not sit without taking any action;
rather they confronted them as well and condemned their doings.
Hence in Madīnah, Zayd ibn Arqam I condemned a governor of the Umayyads
whom he heard reviling ʿAlī I saying to him:
مات
أما إنك قد علمت أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كان ينهى عن شتم الهلكى،‏ فلم تسب عليا وقد
Do you not know that Rasūl Allah I has forbade us from reviling the
deceased? So why do you then revile ʿAlī when he has passed on. 3
1 Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah: Chapter of virtues: Sub-chapter regarding the virtues of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib:
ḥadīth no. 32067.
2 Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 31/193.
3 Ḥilyah al-Awliyāʾ 7/237.
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