Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

And al-Nawawī 1 says:
اعلم أن سب الصحابة رضى الله عنهم حرام من فواحش المحرمات،‏ سواء من ل بس الفتن منهم وغيره
Know that reviling the Ṣaḥābah M is forbidden and is from the worst of
prohibited actions. Reviling those who were part of the conflicts and those
who were not is the same. 2
Likewise Ibn Taymiyah has explicitly stated the following:
إن سب الصحابة رضي الله عنهم حرام بالكتاب والسنة وإجماع المة،‏ وإن من سبهم وجب تأديبه
وعقوبته،‏ ول يجوز العفو عنه
The prohibition of reviling the Ṣaḥābah M is established through the
Qurʾān, the Sunnah, and the unanimity of the Ummah. Hence whoever
reviles them, it is necessary to discipline him and penalise him; it is not
permitted to pardon him. 3
In fact, a group of scholars hold the view that anyone who reviles the Ṣaḥābah
M is unconditionally a disbeliever and have thus asserted that he will not
receive a portion from the wealth of Fayʾ4. 5 However the more correct opinion is
1 Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf ibn Ḥasan al-Nawawī, Abū Zakariyyā. A ḥadīth scholar and a leading Shāfiʿī jurist
in his time, who was entirely disinclined from this world. He was born in Nawā (city in Syria) in 631
A.H. He would not waste any moment of his time in doing nothing. He had presided over the supreme
post of in the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyyah and all his books earned acclaim. He passed away in 676
A.H. The following are some of his works: Sharḥ Muslim, al-Majmūʿ Sharḥ al-Muhadhdhab and al-Adhkār.
See: al-ʿIbar fī Khabar man Ghabar p. 312; Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā 8/395; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah
13/278; Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ p. 513.
2 Sharḥ al-Nawawī ʿalā Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 16/93.
3 Al-Ṣārim al-Maslūl ʿalā Shātim al-Rasūl 3/1121.
4 Fayʾ is the wealth which is taken from the disbelievers without war. See: al-Mughnī 6/312; Majmūʿ
Fatāwā Shaykh al-Islām 7/48; al-Mardāwī: al-Inṣāf 4/198.
5 Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ 9/112; al-Istidhkār 5/17; Sharḥ al-Nawawī ʿalā Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 18/158; Tafsīr ibn Kathīr
1/487; al-Inṣāf 4/198.
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