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What Has Been Related That 'Verbally Abusing A Muslim Is Disobedience'

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Darussalam · Volume 5

38. The Chapters On Faith From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺ

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الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 376

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2635. Ibn Mas'ūd narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Verbally abusing a Muslim is disobedience and fighting him is disbelief." (Ṣaḥīḥ) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. [And the meaning of this Hadīth: "Fighting him is disbelief" does not refer to the disbelief that is equal to apostasy from Islām. The proof for this is that it has been reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever is killed on purpose, then those responsible for the one killed have a choice, if they want, they can kill him, and if they want, they can forgive him." While if killing was disbelief, it would be obligatory. It has been reported from Ibn 'Abbās, Ṭawūs, 'Aṭā' and others among the people of knowledge that they said: "It is a disbelief below disbelief, and a sin below sin."]

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٢٦٣٥ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ‌وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ ‌سُفْيَانَ ، عَنْ ‌زُبَيْدٍ ، عَنْ ‌أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ ‌عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «سِبَابُ» الْمُسْلِمِ فُسُوقٌ وَقِتَالُهُ كُفْرٌ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ. وَمَعْنَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ قِتَالُهُ كُفْرٌ، لَيْسَ بِهِ كُفْرًا مِثْلَ الِارْتِدَادِ، وَالْحُجَّةُ فِي ذَلِكَ مَا رُوِيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: مَنْ قُتِلَ مُتَعَمَّدًا فَأَوْلِيَاءُ الْمَقْتُولِ بِالْخِيَارِ، إِنْ شَاءُوا قَتَلُوا وَإِنْ شَاءُوا عَفَوْا، وَلَوْ كَانَ الْقَتْلُ كُفْرًا لَوَجَبَ، وَقَدْ رُوِيَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَطَاوُسٍ وَعَطَاءٍ وَغَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ قَالُوا: كُفْرٌ دُونَ كُفْرٍ، وَفُسُوقٌ دُونَ فُسُوقٍ.

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