Is One Who Sees the Body of a Companion a Tabi‘i?

Question

What is the definition of a tabi‘i (a successor of the Companions)? If today the body of some Companion were to be discovered, would one who sees it be a tabi‘i or not?

Answer

Merely by seeing a discovered body, no one today, in the fourteenth century, will be called a tabi‘i.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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