Our Duty Toward the Companions and Loving Some of Them More Than Others
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Question:
This questioner asks, Honorable Shaykh: What is our duty toward the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? And does loving one Companion more than the others, while believing in their virtue, contradict the creed of the people of the Sunnah and the community?
Answer:
Loving the Companions is obligatory, and it is part of the religion, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said. Hating them is hypocrisy, may Allah protect us from it; no one hates them except a hypocrite or a disbeliever, so that the disbelievers may be grieved by them, as Allah the Exalted said. The obligatory attitude toward them is pure love[Al-Hashr 59:10].
This appears in the last verse of the chapter of the Emigrants and the Helpers:[Al-Hashr 59:10] meaning, after the Emigrants and the Helpers, loving them, following their example, and not belittling them or belittling any one of them.
He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Abi Dawud 4658Sahih (Al-Albani) They have a great virtue. They are the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). They are the ones who carried this religion for us and conveyed it to us. They are the ones who spread this religion in the East and the West through their calling and their struggle in the path of Allah. It is obligatory to love them, follow their example, and speak well of them. And it is permissible for one to love some of them more than others due to the virtue of some over others. So Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) is loved more than the others, and likewise the rest of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and the rest of the ten promised Paradise. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh
This questioner asks, Honorable Shaykh: What is our duty toward the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? And does loving one Companion more than the others, while believing in their virtue, contradict the creed of the people of the Sunnah and the community?
Answer:
Loving the Companions is obligatory, and it is part of the religion, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said. Hating them is hypocrisy, may Allah protect us from it; no one hates them except a hypocrite or a disbeliever, so that the disbelievers may be grieved by them, as Allah the Exalted said. The obligatory attitude toward them is pure love
Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in faith and put not in our hearts [any] resentment toward those who have believed
رَبَّنَا اغْفِرْ لَنَا وَلِإِخْوَانِنَا الَّذِينَ سَبَقُونَا بِالْإِيمَانِ وَلَا تَجْعَلْ فِي قُلُوبِنَا غِلًّا لِّلَّذِينَ آمَنُواThis appears in the last verse of the chapter of the Emigrants and the Helpers:
And [there is a share for] those who came after them, saying, "Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in faith
وَالَّذِينَ جَاءُوا مِن بَعْدِهِمْ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا اغْفِرْ لَنَا وَلِإِخْوَانِنَا الَّذِينَ سَبَقُونَا بِالْإِيمَانِHe (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Do not revile my Companions; by him in whose hand my soul is, if one of you contributed the amount of gold equivalent to Uhud, it would not amount to as much as the mudd of one of them, or half of it.
لا تسبوا أصحابي، فوالذي نفسي بيده لو أنفق أحدكم مثل أحد ذهبا ما بلغ مد أحدهم ولا نصيفه.The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع فضيلة الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7218 — youtube.com (12:51)
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