What is the ruling on one who mocks the Companions or mocks the names of some of them?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who mocks the Companions, or mocks the names of some of them, and is this considered kufr (disbelief)?
Answer:
[Al-Ahzab 33:58] And these Companions are the most deserving of people of respect and reverence. One should avoid speaking ill of them, cursing them, or belittling them. This is not free from either [defect] or open sinfulness. It is either because [the speaker] is a disbeliever and a hypocrite, with disbelief and hypocrisy in his heart, and it has appeared on his tongue that he is an open sinner who does not care. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who mocks the Companions, or mocks the names of some of them, and is this considered kufr (disbelief)?
Answer:
And those who harm believing men and believing women for [something] other than what they have earned have certainly born upon themselves a slander and manifest sin.
وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْذُونَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ بِغَيْرِ مَا اكْتَسَبُوا فَقَدِ احْتَمَلُوا بُهْتَانًا وَإِثْمًا مُّبِينًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [534 -954] ما حكم من استهزأ بالصحابة أو استهزأ بأسماء بعضهم؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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