Malik ibn Anas said: “Whoever rises in the morning with rancour in his heart toward the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, has been touched by this verse.” (1)
Abu al-Tayyib Tahir ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ala al-Baghawi informed us; Abu Mamar al-Fadl ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim al-Ismaili narrated to us; my grandfather, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ismaili, informed us; al-Haytham ibn Khalaf al-Duri informed me; al-Mufaddal ibn Ghassan ibn al-Mufaddal al-Alai narrated to us; Yaqub ibn Ibrahim ibn Sad narrated to us; Ubaydah ibn Abi Rabit narrated to us from Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, from Abdullah ibn Mughafal al-Muzani, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Fear Allah regarding my Companions! Fear Allah regarding my Companions! Fear Allah regarding my Companions! Do not make them targets after me. Whoever loves them loves them because of his love for me, and whoever hates them hates them because of his hatred for me. Whoever harms them has harmed me, and whoever harms me has harmed Allah; and whoever harms Allah is soon to be seized by Him.” (2)
Abu al-Muzaffar ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hamid al-Tamimi narrated to us; Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman ibn al-Qasim informed us; Abu al-Hasan Khaythamah ibn Sulayman informed us; Ibrahim ibn Abdullah al-Absi al-Qassar of Kufa narrated to us; Waki ibn al-Jarrah informed us, from al-Amash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Said al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Do not insult my Companions. By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, were one of you to spend gold equal to Mount Uhud, he would not attain even a mudd of what any one of them spent, nor half of it.” (3)
Abd al-Wahid al-Mulayi informed us; Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Zafarani informed us; Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Urwah narrated to us; Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ishkab narrated to us; Shababah (4) ibn Sawwar narrated to us; Fudayl ibn Marzuq narrated to us from Abu Khabbab, from Abu Sulaym al-Hamdani, from his father, from Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “If it pleases you to be among the people of Paradise, then there are people who profess love for you. They recite the Quran, but it does not pass beyond their collarbones,”