Sunnis vs Shia when it comes to the Sahabah (Hadith 298)

In this session, Imam Ameer Hamza discusses why Sunni Muslims approach the Sahabah with respect and are cautious in criticizing them. We go through discussion on why respecting the Sahabah is part of our Aqeedah and we give them as much benefit of the doubt and charitability in interpretation as possible.
All of this serves as a preface to the Life of Muwaiyah RA and to set the stage for the fitnah that occurred between the companions.
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Jazaakumullaahu khairan imaam for the wonderful khutba

[@titangamer1790]

Our Shia Scholar Sayyid Sharaf ad-Din al-Musawi says the following in this regard:
“Whoever researches our view with regard to the sahaba will find it the most moderate of views. We neither go to extremes in this regard as the ghulat have done, labelling them all as apostates, nor do we go to extremes in accepting them as trusted authorities as most [Sunni] Muslims have done. Those who attribute their perfection, as well as those who go to the opposite extreme and label them as apostates, are all in the same box.
Sunnis are of the view that anyone who heard or saw the Prophet is absolutely equitable. They support their view from the tradition saying, `... whoever traversed or walked on the earth from them without any exception.' But as far as we are concerned, although we regard keeping company with the Prophet as a great honor, it, as is, does not render one infallible. Like all other men, the sahaba included equitable persons who are their scholars and greatest men, whereas some of them are hypocrites who committed crimes.
The condition of some of them is unknown; so, we rely on the equitable ones among them and accept them as our masters in the life of this world as well as in the life to come. As for those who oppressed the wasi and the Prophet's brother, as well as all those who committed crimes such as Hind's son [Abu Sufyan], the son of the genius, the son of “the blue woman,” the son of Uqbah, the son of Arta'a, etc., and their likes, these have nothing to be honored for, nor does their hadith hold water. It is of an undecided nature, and we have to carefully scrutinize it.
“Such is our view with regard to the sahaba who narrate hadith. The Qur'an and the Sunnah are our argument to pack this view as explained wherever appropriate in our books that deal with the basics of jurisprudence. But the majority of Muslims have gone too far in sanctifying the hadith they hear from any sahabi, so much so that they swayed from moderation and sought their arguments from those who are good as well as from those who are bad, blindly emulating every Muslim individual who had heard or seen the Prophet. They resented others who differed from them in going to such extremes and went beyond all limits in denouncing them.
“How intense their denunciation of us when they find us rejecting the hadith of many sahaba whose integrity we publicly challenge or whose condition is not fully ascertained! While doing so, we simply follow the binding legislative obligation in verifying religious facts and looking for authentic Prophetic legacy.
“It is for this reason that they cast doubt about us, piling their accusations on us, charging us with unfounded charges, vying with one another to remain in ignorance about us. Had they recalled their wisdom and consulted the bases of knowledge and scholarship, they would have come to know that equity as a basic ingredient in all the sahaba cannot be proven. Had they delved in depth into the meanings of the Qur'an, they would have found it full of references to a number of sahabi hypocrites. Suffices you, for example, Surat al-Tawbah and Surat al-Ahzab.”

[@fahedmasalkhi3434]

Dear Imam,
I commented on your ‘Short’ part of this and you replied that I should see the whole version. I did. So here are my comments:
- I repeat what I said in my comment on the short: this video has good advice. JAK
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- What I am saying here is mostly part of the Suni-Suni conversation on the Sahaba not the Sunni-Shi’a conversation about them. As you note in the video (12:00 +) the Shi’a are off the rails on the Sahaba (by the way that comparison with the companions of Musa and ‘Eesa was brilliant).
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- Forgive me for insisting, even after I watched the full version of your vid, that ‘we cannot keep tiptoeing around the difficult questions’.
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- I fully agree with you that the Sahaba should be revered in their person and station among the Muslims.
- However, I do not agree that this should be a blanket reverence to all they did.
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- Revering the Sahaba cannot extend to their ACTIONS. Especially their actions as functionaries in the Umma ( Imams, leaders, Generals, Kahlifas, …. ) for no human is معصوم - always right.
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- My evidence is the same as yours: the Qur’an.
- The Qur’an -as you well know- did not hold back from admonishing/criticizing some of the ACTIONS of the Prophet (PBUH) - See the many examples in Qur’an 3: 128; Q. 4: 105; Q. 9: 84; and Q. 17: 74-75 and these are not the only ones.
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- So, your main argument that the Qur’an directs us to revere the Sahaba is true as far as their person is concerned
- … but it not true about what they did. It does not extend to their ACTIONS. Just like in the case of the Qur’an admonishing some of the actions of the Prophet (PBUH).
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- On another aspect of the video, by minute 18:00 you begin sharing some of the stories about Hind and her upbringing of Mu’awiyah.
- You should know that scholars frown on the majority of this material. It should be taken with great caution.
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- You are doing a superb job in these lessons. Please consider these comments as an attempt to support your effort and nothing else.