wine, whereupon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Do not curse him, for he loves Allah and His Messenger.”(1) He did not punish the man who cursed him, because he had acted on an interpretive judgment.
A person who errs in interpretive judgment is forgiven by virtue of the Quran and Sunnah. Allah Most High said in the believers’ supplication:
“Our Lord, do not hold us accountable if we forget or make a mistake.”
It is established in the Sahih(2) that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said, “I have done so.”(3) In the Sunan of Ibn Mājah and elsewhere, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Indeed, Allah has pardoned my ummah for mistakes and forgetfulness.”(4)
[The Rāfidah treat fighting ʿAlī as an enormity, yet praise those who killed ʿUthmān]
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Once this has become clear, it may be said:
The Rāfidah’s position is among the most corrupt and internally contradictory of all positions. They treat fighting ʿAlī as an enormity, yet praise those who killed ʿUthmān, even though those who killed ʿUthmān are far more deserving of blame and bear far greater sin than those who fought ʿAlī. For ʿUthmān
(1) The hadith is narrated from Umar ibn al-Khattāb—may Allah be pleased with him—in al-Bukhārī, 8/158 (Book of Prescribed Punishments, chapter “The Disapproval of Cursing a Wine Drinker and That He Is Not Thereby Excluded from the Faith”).
(2) S reads: “in the two Sahīh collections.”
(3) This is part of the wording of the hadith in Muslim, 1/116 (Book of Faith, chapter “Clarification That He, Glorified and Exalted, Has Imposed Only What Is Within One’s Capacity”). The hadith is also narrated—with variations in wording—from Ibn Abbās and Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with them—in Muslim, 1/115–116; al-Musnad (al-Maārif ed.), 3/341–342 (no. 2070) and 5/31 (no. 3071). See its various narrations in Tafsīr al-Tabarī (al-Maārif ed.), 6/142–145; see also 6/104–105. The hadith was cited previously, p. 20[0–9].
(4) The hadith is narrated from Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī—may Allah be pleased with him—in Sunan Ibn Mājah, 1/659 (Book of Divorce, chapter “The Divorce of One under Duress or One Who Forgets”). Its concluding words are: “…forgetfulness and what they were compelled to do.” The annotator states: “In al-Zawā’id: Its chain of transmission is weak…” Al-Albānī graded the hadith authentic in Sahīh al-Jāmi al-Saghīr, 2/102.