Harsh Words against Hadrat Amir Mu‘awiya ﵁

Question

An ignorant man curses the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, for example Hadrat Amir Mu‘awiya ﵁, and regards this as lawful and meritorious. Has a Muslim holding such a belief gone out of the fold of Islam? Please write with proofs, citing books and pages.

Answer

Whoever holds it lawful to curse the noble Companions ﵃ is outside the fold of Islam, because praise of the noble Companions ﵃ occurs in the Noble Qur’an in numerous places, and to hold cursing them lawful and meritorious is to deny the Qur’anic verses. Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari writes in “Sharh al-Fiqh al-Akbar”, p.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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