Combining the description of the Companions as brothers and companions
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: How do we reconcile the fact that the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) have two qualities, companionship and brotherhood, with the hadith, “Are we not your brothers?” to which he said, “You are my companions”?
Answer:
Yes, the Companions have both brotherhood and companionship. This is in the very hadith you are quoting: they are his brothers and they are his companions. As for those who came after them, they are his brothers but not his companions. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: How do we reconcile the fact that the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) have two qualities, companionship and brotherhood, with the hadith, “Are we not your brothers?” to which he said, “You are my companions”?
Answer:
Yes, the Companions have both brotherhood and companionship. This is in the very hadith you are quoting: they are his brothers and they are his companions. As for those who came after them, they are his brothers but not his companions. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/1983] الجمع بين وصف الصحابة بالأخوة والصحبة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.