The Ruling on Depicting the Companions

Question:
A questioner asks: What is the ruling on depicting the Companions?

Answer:
It is not permissible to depict the Companions, because this is a disparagement of them. Who is it that would assume the role of a Companion? It is not permissible. The Companions have their status and their rank, and it is not permissible to assume their identities, because this involves disparaging them; it is lying, lying about them.
Decisions have been issued by the various Fiqh academies, differing in their types and locations. They have all agreed on the prohibition of depicting the Companions. Only insignificant outliers have issued a ruling to the contrary. As for the scholars whose opinions are followed, they have all agreed on this. Decisions have been issued by the Council of Senior Scholars, by the Fiqh Academy in the League, and by the International Islamic Fiqh Academy. They all issued decisions prohibiting it. Yes.