78. Adab (Good Manners and Form)

٧٨۔ كتاب الأدب

78.73 Whoever calls his brother a Kafir without any grounds

٧٨۔٧٣ باب مَنْ كَفَّرَ أَخَاهُ بِغَيْرِ تَأْوِيلٍ فَهْوَ كَمَا قَالَ

bukhari:6103Muḥammad And ʾAḥmad b. Saʿīd > ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar > ʿAlī b. al-Mubārak > Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr > Abū Salamah > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If a man says to his brother, O Kafir (disbeliever)!' Then surely one of them is such (i.e., a Kafir). "  

البخاري:٦١٠٣حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لأَخِيهِ يَا كَافِرُ فَقَدْ بَاءَ بِهِ أَحَدُهُمَا وَقَالَ عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ سَمِعَ أَبَا سَلَمَةَ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ  

You would risk becoming a disbeliever if you call another Muslim a kāfir (disbeliever)

bukhari:6104Ismāʿīl > Mālik > ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If anyone says to his brother O kāfir (disbeliever)! Then surely, one of them such."  

البخاري:٦١٠٤حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ: «أَيُّمَا رَجُلٍ قَالَ لأَخِيهِ: يَا كَافِرُ، فَقَدْ بَاءَ بِهَا أَحَدُهُمَا۔»  

bukhari:6105Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl > Wuhayb > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Thābit b. al-Ḍaḥḥāk

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Whoever swears by a religion other than Islam (i.e. if he swears by saying that he is a non-Muslim in case he is telling a lie), then he is as he says if his oath is false and whoever commits suicide with something, will be punished with the same thing in the (Hell) fire, and cursing a believer is like murdering him, and whoever accuses a believer of disbelief, then it is as if he had killed him."  

البخاري:٦١٠٥حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ أَبِي قِلاَبَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ الضَّحَّاكِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنْ حَلَفَ بِمِلَّةٍ غَيْرِ الإِسْلاَمِ كَاذِبًا فَهْوَ كَمَا قَالَ وَمَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسَهُ بِشَىْءٍ عُذِّبَ بِهِ فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَعْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ كَقَتْلِهِ وَمَنْ رَمَى مُؤْمِنًا بِكُفْرٍ فَهْوَ كَقَتْلِهِ