Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

that you refrain?” If it is because of piety and respect then you are correct,
and if it is for any other reason than the answer would be different. 1
Likewise al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿᾹshūr 2 has also supported the view that no revilement
occurred during the era of Muʿāwiyah I. He has said:
لم أقف على تعيين الوقت الذي ابتدع فيه هذ السب،‏ ولكنه لم يكن في خالفة معاوية رضىي الله عنه
I have not come across the exact time in which this revilement was
initiated. However it was not during the era of Muʿāwiyah I. 3
It has also been reported that one of the conditions placed by Ḥasan I during
the truce was that ʿAlī I not be reviled in front of him. 4
It is reported that Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam would revile him upon the pulpit and
that the governor of Madīnah, who was from the family of Marwān, had ordered
Sahl ibn Saʿd I to denigrate him. And lastly regarding Mughīrah I there
are also reports which support this viewpoint. 5
1 Sharḥ al-Nawawī ʿalā Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 15/175. In 15/176 he has offered another interpretation which
reads as follows, “What prevents you from deeming him wrong in his opinion and reasoning and
expressing to the people the accuracy of our opinion and reasoning.”
2 Muḥammad al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿᾹshūr. The head Muftī of the Mālikī school in Tunisia and the supreme
scholar of the Zaytūnah University and its branches. He was born in 1296 A.H. He was part of the two
Arabic academies in Damascus and Cairo. He passed away in 1393 A.H. Some of his books are: al-Taḥrīr
wa al-Tanwīr, Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah al-Islāmiyyah, Uṣūl al-Niẓām al-Ijtimāʿī fī al-Islām. See: al-Aʿlām 6/174;
al-Jawāb al-Mufīd li al-Sāʾil al-Mustafīd p. 65; Shaykh al-Islām al-Imām al-Akbar of Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb
ibn Khūjah.
3 Al-Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr 13/259.
4 Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 6/246; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 3/264; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 8/14.
Ibn Taymiyah says: As opposed to reviling ʿAlī I for it was rampant amongst the followers of
Muʿāwiyah I. See: Majmūʿ Fatāwā 4/436. He also says, “Reviling ʿAlī I and cursing him was part
of the revolt because of which the opposition came to draw the title ‘the rebellious group’.
5 Sunan Abī Dāwūd 4/211. The ḥadīth is deemed authentic by Albānī in his Ṣaḥīḥ Sunan Abī Dāwūd:
ḥadīth no. 4648.
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