Curse Whoever Curses You
Perhaps this is due to the ignorance of the Christian. The narration being used is weak, and even when the wording is examined, the objection collapses because the Arabic meaning is being mishandled.
The Hadith Is Weak
It was narrated from the Prophet ﷺ that he said:
Grade: Mursal
Al-Tabarani narrated in Al-Mu’jam al-Kabir, no. 6885, from the hadith of Samurah رضي الله عنه, who said:
[!hadith] Al-Tabarani — Al-Mu’jam al-Kabir, no. 6885
The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade us from cursing, and he said: “If one of you must curse his companion, then he should not slander him, nor curse his parents, nor curse his people. But if he knows that, then let him say: ‘You are stingy,’ or let him say: ‘You are a coward,’ or let him say: ‘You are a liar,’ or let him say: ‘You are mean.’”
This is also mentioned in Kanz al-Ummal, no. 8133.
Ibn Shaheen said in Al-Targhib fi Fada’il al-A’mal wa Thawab Dhal on the authority of Anas ibn Malik:
The most extreme insults the companions of Muhammad ﷺ would use among themselves were three words, without mentioning fathers and mothers. Rather, a man would say to his brother: “You are too cowardly to fight the enemy, you are too stingy with money to spend it, you are too lazy to mention God when you hear Him.”
This was the insult of the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ. So glory be to God and praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.
The point is clear: the prophetic instruction was not permission for filthy slander, tribal abuse, or insulting parents. Rather, even when rebuke occurred, it was restricted to a true personal flaw known about the person.
Returning to the Source and the Arabic Wording
If we go back to the source and use the formation, we find the following:
Al-Zubayr mentioned that when Hubbar ibn al-Aswad converted to Islam and accompanied the Messenger of God ﷺ, the Muslims used to curse him for what he had done until he complained about that to the Messenger of God ﷺ, and he said: “Curse whoever curses you, O Hubbar.”
Note the diacritical mark with dammah.
If we go back to the dictionary Lisan al-Arab, in the chapter on the letter seen, we find the following:
Shame means disgrace. It is said: “This matter has become a disgrace upon them,” with the dammah, meaning a disgrace with which they are insulted.
That is, what is meant by this statement is that Hubbar was complaining to the Messenger ﷺ that the Muslims were taunting him about what happened to Zainab. So the Messenger ﷺ said to him: reproach whoever reproaches you.
But the Arabic language only uses the eloquence of language. Eloquence may look like stupidity to those who are ignorant of the language they speak about from the people of the cross, so they say in the Arabic language: “insult whoever insults you,” while the meaning is: “reproach whoever reproaches you.”
This hadith reveals the tolerance of the Messenger of God ﷺ. The narration is not a license for vulgar abuse. It is about responding to reproach with reproach, while the broader reports forbid slander, cursing parents, and attacking someone’s people.
The Biblical Double Standard
But let us see their savage Jesus ordering killing and slaughtering virgins, and killing and crucifying seven innocent people who had no guilt.
Jesus the Vampire
Jesus the vampire is a savage devil.
Excuse me guys, every time I read the Bible I am amazed at events that can only be attributed to a vampire, a war criminal, a butcher, a savage terrorist, a devil, Dracula — no god is worshipped.
Come and look at this vow that one of the judges made to the Lord, meaning Jesus according to Christian theology, and see what the Lord did and how the Lord accepted this vow.
By God, I have never seen such savagery before and will never see again.
I will shorten the story so that it is easy for everyone. The owner of the story is Jephthah, the son of a harlot, and he is from the tribe of Judah — that is, from the lineage of the Lord Jesus.
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord.
And at the end of two months she returned to her father, and he did with her the vow which he had vowed, for she had known no man. And it became a custom in Israel.
Where is the mercy?
The Lord, meaning Jesus according to Christian theology, was not satisfied with this brutality, but made it a habit in Israel, and everyone who wanted to get closer to the Lord slaughtered his daughter.
By God, it is a sad thing.
Where is the human mind that accepts this crime, brutality, and shedding of human blood for a god? How does God allow such a crime to be accepted? Where is mercy? How did the Lord Jesus allow such a vow to be accepted? Why did the Lord Jesus not stop this brutality?
Did the Lord not send his angel to Gideon before?
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
This is the greatest evidence of the brutality of Jesus, whom they claim is the God of love, by accepting such filthy vows to slaughter virgins for him. He is no different from the gods of the Pharaohs who used to vow the most beautiful virgins to them during the Nile festivals.
There is no power or strength except with God.
A Crime Like No Other
Look at the offerings made to the Lord, represented by Jesus according to Christian faith, in response to the rain falling.
And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year by year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is for Saul’s sake, and for the bloody house, because he had slain the Gibeonites.”
They said, “Let us give you seven men of his sons, and we will hang them to the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.”
And the king said, “I will give it.”
So David took the two sons of Saul and the five sons of Saul’s daughter, and delivered them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD. And the seven fell together and were killed, and water poured down on them from heaven.
After that the LORD answered for the land.
These are the offerings of the prayer for rain in the law of the Lord, represented by Jesus according to the Christian faith.
Notice what the law says:
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Where is mercy? Where is love? Where is justice? Where is the application of the law?
People’s lives are a plaything in the hands of Jesus the Love.
Meanings of Hadith Terms
What was narrated by a large number of people who would normally not collude to lie.
What the narrators agreed on in both wording and meaning.
What the narrators agreed on in a general meaning, while each hadith has its own wording.
What does not meet the conditions of mutawatir.
What was narrated by three or more from each level and did not reach the level of mutawatir.
What has no fewer than two narrators in any level of the chain of transmission.
What was narrated by only one narrator in any level of the chain of transmission.
What has a connected chain of transmission through a trustworthy and reliable narrator from someone like him to its end, without anomaly or defect.
What is hasan in itself if it is narrated through another path similar to it or stronger than it.
What has a connected chain of transmission through a trustworthy and reliable narrator whose accuracy is weaker, from someone like him to its end, without anomaly or defect.
The weak hadith that has multiple chains of transmission, where the reason for weakness is not the immorality or lying of the narrator.
That which does not meet the description of sahih or hasan due to the absence of one of its conditions.
The hadith that is surrounded and accompanied by matters in addition to what is required of an acceptable report in terms of conditions, such as being connected by the imams of hadith preservers, or what the two Shaykhs included in their Sahihs that did not reach the level of tawatur.
The acceptable hadith that is free from opposition from its like.
The acceptable hadith that is opposed by its like, with the possibility of combining them.
The hadith that removes a ruling mentioned in a previous hadith.
The hadith that contains a ruling abrogated by another hadith.
The hadith in which the truthfulness of the one who reported it is not likely.
The hadith that has one or more narrators omitted from its chain of transmission.
The objection fails because the cited report is weak, and the wording itself is being mishandled. The prophetic standard does not permit filthy slander, abuse of parents, or tribal insult; it restricts rebuke to a true known fault. Meanwhile, the Biblical double standard is far worse: the same critics who attack this weak report must explain vows involving slaughter, hanging innocent descendants, and bloodshed presented before the Lord.