What is your opinion of the one who says that there is a lowly class among the Companions?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. The questioner asks: What is your opinion of the one who says that there is a lowly class among the Companions?

Answer:
We told you to leave these questions alone. This is trivial talk with no value, and no attention should be paid to it. The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) are the best of this Ummah (Muslim community) by the consensus of the Muslims. No one speaks ill of them, and no one belittles them except a hypocrite or an innovator. Only a hypocrite or an innovator belittles the Companions. This is a rule. As for the people of the Sunnah and the community, they honor the Companions, value them, revere them, are pleased with them, love them, and follow their example, because they are the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), whom our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commended. He said: "The best of you are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them." He said: If you spent gold like Mount Uhud, pure red gold, it would not equal a mudd (a quarter of a sa') of barley that a Companion gave in charity, or a mudd of dates that a Companion gave in charity. It would not equal Mount Uhud in gold from anyone else.
So where is the one who speaks ill of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) except a hypocrite, and the hypocrites are known, or an innovator who hates the Companions because he is an innovator, and the Companions forbid his innovation and oppose him in his innovation, so he hates everyone who opposed him among the Companions and others. Yes.