Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Whoever reviles the Ṣaḥābah of Rasūl Allāh H or one among them,
belittles him, or impugns them, hints towards their faults and criticises
any of them is an innovator and a wicked Rāfiḍī from who Allah E will
not accept any optional or obligatory prayer.
Thereafter he says:
ل يجوز لحد أن يذكر شيئا من مساويهم،‏ ول يطعن على أحد منهم،‏ فمن فعل ذلك فقد وجب على
السلطان تأديبه وعقوبته،‏ ليس له أن يعفو عنه،‏ بل يعاقبه ويستتيبه،‏ فإن تاب قبل منه،‏ وإن لم يتب أعاد عليه
العقوبة،‏ وخلده في الحبس حتى يتوب ويراجع
It is not permissible for anyone to mention their negatives or impugn any
of them. Whoever does so, it will be compulsory upon the ruler to discipline
him and penalise him. It will not be permissible to forgive him, rather he
will punish him and ask him to repent. If he repents, his repentance will be
accepted, and if he does not, the punishment will be reinstated and he will
be imprisoned for life, unless he repents and recants his statements. 1
Al-Khaṭṭābī 2 says:
من أبغضهم وسبهم ونسبهم إلى ما تنسبهم الروافض والخوارج لعنهم الله فقد هلك في الهالكين
Whoever despises them, reviles them, or attributes to them what the
Rawāfiḍ and the Khawārij attribute to them—may the curse of Allah
descend upon them—is indeed a loser like the other losers. 3
1 Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah 1/30; al-Ṣārim al-Maslūl 3/1056; Ḥādī al-Arwāḥ p. 291; Ibn Badrān: al-Madkhal p.
94.
2 Ḥamd/Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Khaṭṭāb al-Bustī Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī. A
Shāfiʿī jurist who was an expert in the sciences of ḥadīth, Arabic and literature. He passed away in
388 A.H. some of his works are: Maʿālim al-Sunan, Gharīb al-Ḥadīth and Kitāb al-ʿUzlah. See: Siyar Aʿlām
al-Nubalāʾ 17/23; al-Wāfī bi al-Wafayāt 7/207; Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā 3/282; Ibn Qāḍī Shuhbah:
Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah 2/156.
3 Al-Ghunyah ʿan al-Kalām wa Ahlih p. 58.
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