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He said: “The Shaykh said: Whoever reviles the Companions, or any one of them, and couples his revilement with the claim that ‘Ali is a deity or a prophet, or that Gabriel erred, then there is no doubt that such a person is a disbeliever. Indeed, there is no doubt that whoever hesitates to declare him a disbeliever is himself a disbeliever.”

What, then, is the ruling on reviling the Companions in general?

The answer is that whoever reviles them collectively is likewise a disbeliever, because reviling the Companions constitutes an attack upon the Islamic law: the Islamic law reached us only through them. Moreover, reviling the Companions is also reviling the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, for there is no good in a man whose companions are deemed worthy of disparagement, fault-finding, and abuse. A person follows the religion of his close companion. How could a believing man say that Muhammad’s companions were among the vilest servants of Allah, the most unjust of His servants, tyrants, and the like?!

In addition, reviling the Companions entails reviling Allah, Most High, since He chose such men for His Prophet—who is the most excellent of creation in His sight—and because Allah praised them, saying:

“Those of you who spent and fought before the conquest are not equal to those who did so afterwards. They are greater in rank than those who spent and fought afterwards. Yet Allah has promised the best reward to each.” [al-Hadid 57:10]

Thus, reviling the Companions entails four grave offenses: reviling them, reviling the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, reviling the Islamic law, and reviling Allah, Most High.

He said: “Likewise, whoever claims that something has been omitted from the Quran or concealed...”