Those Who Curse the Sahabah Turn to Pigs

السلام عليكم,

Some select passages from the Book an-Nahay ‘an Sab al-‘Ashab, or The Prohibition on Cursing the Companions:

I heard Shaykh Abu Bakr Mas’ud bin Mamdud bin Abu Bakr al-Hakari, he said, I was serving with Maymun al-Qasari in milking, and there was mention of the Rafidhah that he used to know. So it was said that when one of them died, his nature would change into a pig. So Maymum flat out rejected that. Then he said, ‘Among us was their elder, so-and-so al-Bazdar, indeed he died before our eyes’. So it happened that that man had died, and he said, they buried him in a solitary place. Next he went out and we went with him to the grave site and spent the night, and he ordered his grave to be dug up. So he saw that he was a pig, and we saw him too, and Maymun ordered wood to be gathered, and then he ordered the body be incinerated.

And another:

The Mu’aththin of Akk said, I and my uncle went out to Makran (a town near Samarqand), so a man was with us who would curse Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both. So we prohibited him, and he still would not desist, so we said, ‘get away from us’, so he got away from us. Then he came to us repentant so we agreed he could join us until we return to Kufah. So a boy under his charge met with us, so we said to him, ‘Say to your guardian to join us again’. He said, ‘Indeed my guardian has fallen into a great matter, his hand has actually transformed into the hand of a pig’. (The narrator) said, so we went to him and said to him, ‘Join us’. He said, ‘Indeed a severe matter has befallen me’. Then he took out his arm, and both arms were the arms of a pig. So he joined us until we ended up at a town with a lot of black pigs, so when he saw it he gave out a clear cry and leaped, and then transformed into a pig. We got so scared that we took the boy under his charge and his goods, and ran to Kufah.

Amazing!