Deception No. (11)_ There Are 12 Hypocrites Among My Companions

On the authority of Qais, he said: I said to Ammar: Have you seen this action of yours that you did in the matter of Ali? Have you seen it or something that the Messenger of God entrusted to you? He said: The Messenger of God did not entrust us with anything that he did not entrust to all people, but Hudhayfah told me on the authority of the Prophet, he said: The Prophet said: Among my companions are twelve hypocrites, eight of them will not enter Paradise until a camel passes through the eye of a needle. Eight of them will suffice you for a wound, and four I did not remember what Shu’bah said about them.

First: Al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir said in Al-Bidayah wa Al-Nihayah, vol. 6, p. 296: “The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, died after God had opened for him Medina, Khaybar, Mecca, most of Yemen, and Hadhramaut. He died leaving behind a hundred thousand companions or more. At the end of his noble life, he wrote to all the kings of the earth, calling them to God Almighty. Some of them responded, some did so and were lenient with themselves, and some were arrogant and failed and lost, as Kisra ibn Hurmuz did when he rebelled, transgressed, and was arrogant, so his kingdom was torn apart and his army was scattered. Then his caliphs after him, Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Uthman, then Ali, who followed him, conquered the easts and wests of the earth, from the western sea to the eastern sea, as the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘The earth was folded up for me and I saw its easts and wests, and the kingdom of my nation will reach what was folded up for me of it.’” Narrated by Muslim in Al-Fitan, 2889.

Second: He considered everyone who believed in the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) during his life and saw him as a companion, even though Allah the Almighty informed us that among the people of Medina were hypocrites and among those around it who declared Islam were those who concealed disbelief : “And among the people of Medina are those who persist in hypocrisy” (At-Tawbah 101) . So if the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) informed us at the end of his life that hypocrisy had ended, and those who died among them had died and those who believed among them had believed, and only twelve men remained as hypocrites, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) gave their names to Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) to warn him against them and to warn the rest of the companions not to be deceived by them, so is ten men considered a significant number out of one hundred thousand???

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Third: God, God, in a society that is numbered in the thousands and the number of hypocrites in it is hardly more than the fingers of one hand, so what about twelve men who gathered around Jesus, peace be upon him, and found among them one who denied his prophet three times in one night, as did the companion Peter, who promised Christ not to deny him, then broke his promise and swore falsely: “Then he began to curse and swear, ‘I do not know the man ! ’” (Matthew 26:74) . And what is more astonishing and bitter is what the companion Judas did when he betrayed Christ and handed him over to his enemies : “And he said, ‘What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?’ So they gave him thirty pieces of silver . ” (Matthew 26:15).