Believing holiness and infallibly of all Sahaba has caused lots of problems for followers of this belief, which some of them are great historical problems. Because we can see lots of hard contentions between some of Sahaba in famous and trusted history books and of them and also Ahadith in Sahih books and we cannot accept both sides to be righteous, infallible and impartial, because this is some kind of unity of oppositions and the matter that oppositions cannot be unite is one of rational self evident matters.

Beside Jamal and Saffain wars which started by Talha, Zubayr and Muaviya against Imam of Muslims Ali (a.s.), and if we do not ignore the truths we should confess the sins and murders of war starters, there are lots of historical evidences for this issue which we briefly share just three of them here:

1-    Bokhari, famous Hadith teller in his Sahih, the book “Altafsir” writes about the issue of Afak (accusation which some people gave to wife of prophet): One day Prophet (s.a.) was on pulpit, he called: Muslims, who punishes this man (Abdullah ibn Salool one of concision leaders)? It is said that he accused my wife for something bad, while I have not seen any faults from my wife ... Sa’d ibn Ma’aaz Ansari (famous Sahaba) stood and said: I punish him, if he is from “Aws” tribe I will cut his head off and if he is from “Khazraj” tribe I will do anything that you order. Sa’d ibn Ibada (Sheikh of Khazraj) who was a righteous man before that, due to tribal fanaticism told to Sa’d ibn Ma’aaz: I swear Allah that you lied, you do not have the power to do this, Aseed ibn Hazeer (cousin of Sa’d ibn Ma’aaz) said: I swear Allah that you lied, he is hypocritical and we will kill him. It was close to start a fight between to tribes that prophet of Allah (s.a.) calm them down.¹ Were all these persons righteous Sahaba?

2-    Famous scholar Balazari says in “Alansab”: Sa’d ibn Abi Waqas was governor of Kufa, Osman depose him and placed Waleed ibn Oghba in his position and Abdullah ibn Mas’ood was treasurer at that time. When Waleed entered the Kufa asked Abdullah ibn Mas’ood the keys of bursary. Abdullah threw the keys in front of him and said: Caliph has changed the tradition (of prophet), does he depose someone like Sa’d ibn Abi Waqas and place someone like Waleed in his position?

Waleed wrote to Osman that Abdullah ibn Mas’ood animadverting you, and Osman ordered to send Abdullah to him with guards. When he entered the Medina, Caliph was on pulpit, when he saw Abdullah ibn Mas’ood said: A bad moving thing entered! (and other expression which my pen is ashamed of writing them).

Abdullah ibn Mas’ood said: I am not this thing that you say, I am one of companions of Prophet (s.a.) in Badr war and in the day of Rizwan allegiance, Ayesha stood up defending Abdullah, but servant of Osman named “Yahmoom” moved him out of mosque and threw him in the ground and also broke one of his ribs.2

3-    Balazari quotes in that book “Alansab Alashraf” that there were jewels and ornaments in Medina bursary, Osman gave some of them to his family, and when people saw that animadverting him in public and had told bad expressions about him. Osman got angry and above his pulpit said: We acquire anything that we need from spoils, although someone will be nuzzled!!

Ali (a.s.) told him: “Muslims will stop you”!

Ammar Yasser said: The first one whom will be nuzzled is me! (He meant that I won’t give up blaming you).

Osman got angry and said: You disrespect me, arrest him. Guards arrested him and bring him to Osman’s house. Osman beat him until he passed out, and then moved him to the house of Umm Salama (wife of prophet). He was not awake that he missed noon, sunset and night prayers. When he woke up, he performed ablution for prayer and said: This is not the first time that we get hurt for Allah.¹ (He meant problems that he had with infidels at the beginning of Islam).

I do not want to quote these bitter adventures of Islam history, (I worry to hurt you, unless there are lots of stories! (A Poem)) and if some of our brothers didn’t insist on infallibly of all Sahaba and all their acts, maybe this much also was not proper to say.

Now the question is that is it justifiable to insult, hurt, beat and curse three of most pure and righteous Sahaba (Sa’d ibn Ma’aaz and Abdullah ibn Mas’ood and Ammar Yasser), beating one great Sahaba until his rib broke and beat another one until he passed out and missed his prayer?

Do these historical evidences which are not few let us to ignore the truths and say all of Sahaba were good and all of their acts were correct, and form a “Sahaba Army” and defend all their acts without any condition? 

Does any wise man accept these kinds of thoughts?

Here we repeat this expression for more and more times that there were lots of believer, righteous and pious persons among Sahaba of prophet of Allah (s.a.), but there were some people whom theirs acts should be reconsidered and scaled with sanity and then we can talk about them.

1- Sahih of Bokhari, vol. 5, page 57.
2- Ansab Alashraf, vol. 6, page 161.