Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Abū Nuʿaym 1 says:
الواجب على المسلمين في أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إظهار ما مدحهم الله تعالى به
وشكرهم عليه من جميل أفعالهم وجميل سوابقهم
Regarding the Ṣaḥābah of Rasūl Allāh H, it is compulsory upon the
Muslims to demonstrate the praises Allah E has showered upon them
and the acknowledgement He has displayed for their outstanding actions
and excellent contributions. 2
And al-Ṭaḥāwī 3 mentions:
نحب أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم و لنفرط في حب أحد منهم،‏ ونبغض من يبغضهم وبغير
الخير.ل نذكرهم ، وحبهم دين وإيمان وإحسان،‏ وبغضهم كفر ونفاق وطغيان
We love the Ṣaḥābah of Rasūl Allāh H. We do not slack in loving any of
them. We hate those who hate them and talk about them in only in good
ways. Loving them is part of our Dīn, our faith, and is a virtue, and hating
them is disbelief, hypocrisy, and transgression. 4
1 Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mahrānī, Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣfahānī. A scholar of ḥadīth who was
inclined to mysticism. He was born in 336 A.H. His scholars gave him Ijāzah in ḥadīth (permission to
narrate ḥadīths) when he was six years of age. Scholars from all places gathered at his feet owing to
his high chains of transmission and thorough knowledge of ḥadīth and its sciences. He was impugned
without any evidence. Some of his works are: Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ, Muʿjam al-Ṣaḥābah, and Kitāb al-Imāmah
wa al-Radd ʿalā al-Rāfiḍah. He passed away in 430 A.H. See: Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ 3/1092; Siyar Aʿlām al-
Nubalāʾ 17/453; Lisān al-Mīzān 1/201; Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ p. 423.
2 Al-Imāmah wa al-Radd ʿalā al-Rāfiḍah p. 341.
3 Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salāmah al-Azdī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī (attributed to Ṭaḥā, a village in
Egypt). A jurist and a scholar of ḥadīth. He was born in 239 A.H. Initially he studied the Shāfiʿī School
from his uncle al-Muzanī and thereafter switched to the Ḥanafī School. Subsequently he became the
supreme authority therein in Egypt. He passed away in 321 A.H. Some of his works: Sharḥ Maʿānī
al-Āthār, Aḥkām al-Qurʾān and al-Mukhtaṣar fī al-Fiqh. See: Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 5/367; Siyar Aʿlām al-
Nubalāʾ 15/27; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 11/173; al-Jawāhir al-Muḍīʾah fī Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyyah 1/102.
4 Ibn Abī al-ʿIz: Sharḥ al-ʿAqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah p. 528.
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