The rights of the Beloved Prophet Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon

Him and the devotion, respect, esteem and honor that are owed to him are
made clear in the Holy Book and the Sunnah and the consensus of the
community. In His Book, Allah has made it haram to harm him. The
community agrees that anyone among the Muslims who disparages him or
curses him is to be killed!!

Allah SubHanuhu wa Ta'ala says, "Indeed those who trouble Allah and His
Noble Messenger – upon them is Allah’s curse in the world and in the
Hereafter, and Allah has kept prepared a disgraceful punishment for them."
[33:57] and "and for those who trouble the Noble Messenger of Allah, is a
painful punishment.," [9:61] and "and you have no right to trouble the
Noble Messenger of Allah, nor ever marry any of his wives after him;
indeed that is a very severe matter in the sight of Allah." [33:53]

Know that all who curse Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, or blame him or attribute imperfection to him in his person, his
lineage, his deen or any of his qualities, or alludes to that or it’s like by any
means whatsoever, whether in the form of a curse or contempt or belittling
him or detracting from him or finding fault with him or maligning him, the
judgment regarding such a person is the same as the judgment against
anyone who curses him. He is killed as we shall make clear. This judgment
extends to anything which amounts to a curse or disparagement. We have
no hesitation concerning this matter, be it a clear statement or allusion.

The same applies to anyone who curses him, invokes against him, desires to
harm him, ascribes to him what does not befit his position or jokes about
his mighty affair with foolish talk, satire, disliked words or lies, or reviles
him because of any affliction or trial which happened to him or disparages
him, because of any of the permissible and well-known human events
which happened to him. All of this is the consensus of the 'Ulama' and the
Imams of fatwa from the time of the Companions until today.
 ..:: Verdicts by the Jurists and Scholars of
Islam ::..
1. Abu Bakr ibn al-Mundhir said that the bulk of the people of knowledge
agree that whoever curses the Prophet is killed. These include Malik ibn
Anas, al-Layth, Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Ishaq ibn Rahawayh, and it is the
position of the Shafi'i school.

2. Qadi Abu'l-Fadl said that it is based on the statement of Abu Bakr as-
Siddiq. His repentance is not accepted.

3. Something similar was stated by Abu Hanifa and his people, ath-Thawri
and the people of Kufa and al-Awza'i about the Muslims. However, they
said that it constitutes apostasy.

4. At-Tabari related something similar from Abu Hanifa and his

companions about anyone who disparages the Prophet, proclaims himself
quit of him or calls him a liar.
 5. Sahnun said about those who curse the Prophet, "This is apostasy in
exactly the same way as heresy (zandaqa) is. Therefore there is some
dispute about whether such a person should be called to repent (as a
Muslim) or whether he is an unbeliever. Is he to be killed by a hadd-
punishment (as a Muslim) or for disbelief?" We will make this clear in
Chapter Two. We do not know of any dispute among the 'Ulama' of the
community and the Salaf regarding the permissibility of shedding his
blood.

6. Several people have mentioned that the consensus is that he is to be

killed and considered an unbeliever. One of the Dhahirites, Abu
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Farisi, however, indicated that there is some
disagreement about whether to consider someone who belittles the Prophet
as an unbeliever. The best-known position has already been stated.

7. Muhammad ibn Sahnun said that the 'ulama' agree that anyone who
reviles the Prophet and disparages him is an unbeliever and the threat of
Allah's punishment is on him. The community's judgment on him is that he
be killed. Anyone who has any doubts about such a person's disbelief and
punishment is also an unbeliever. For a proof of this, Ibrahim ibn Husayn
ibn Khalid, the faqih, uses the instance of Khalid ibn al-Walid killing Malik
ibn Nuwayra for referring to the Prophet as "your companion."'

8. Abu Sulayman al-Khattabi said, "I do not know of any Muslim who
disagrees about the necessity of killing such a person if he is a Muslim."
9. Ibn al-Qasim reports from Malik in the book of Ibn Sahnun, the Mabsut,
and the 'Utibiyya and Ibn Mutarrif relate the same from Malik in the book
of Ibn Habib, "Any Muslim who curses the Prophet is killed without being
asked to repent."

10. Ibn al-Qasim said in the 'Utibiyya, "Anyone who curses him, reviles
him, finds fault with him or disparages him is killed. The community says
that he should be killed just like the dualist. Allah made it obligatory to
respect the Prophet and be dutiful to him."

11. In the Mabsut from 'Uthman ibn Kinana we find, "Any Muslim who
reviles the Prophet is killed or crucified without being asked to repent. The
Imam can choose between crucifying him and killing him."

12. In the variant of Abu'l-Mus'ab and Ibn Abi Uways, they heard Malik say,
"Anyone who curses the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, reviles him, finds fault with him or disparages him is killed, be
he Muslim or unbeliever, without being asked to repent."

13. Asbagh said, "He is killed in every case, whether he conceals it or makes
it public, without being asked to repent because his repentance is not
recognized."
14. 'Abdullah ibn 'Abdu'l-Hakam said that and at-Tabari related something
similar from Malik Ibn Wahb related that Malik said, "Anyone who says
that the Prophet's cloak (or button) was dirty, thereby intending to find
fault with him, should be killed."

15. One of our 'ulama says that people agree that anyone who curses any of
the Prophets using the expression "Woe to him" or anything disliked is to
be killed without being asked to repent.

16. Abu'l-Hasan al-Qabisi gave a fatwa that a man who called the Prophet
"the porter, the orphan of Abu Talib" should be killed.

17. Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd gave a fatwa to kill a man who was
listening to some people discussing what the Prophet looked like. When a
man with an ugly face and beard walked by, he said to them, "You want to
know what he looked like? He looked like this passer-by in physique and
beard." Abu Muhammad said, "His repentance is not accepted. He lied,
may Allah curse him. That could not come out of a heart with sound belief."

18. Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, the companion of Sahnun, said, "Anyone who
says that the Prophet was black should be killed."

19. He was told about a man to whom someone said, "No, by the right of the
Messenger of Allah," and he replied, "Allah did such a thing to the
Messenger of Allah," mentioning some ugly words. People said to him,
"What are you saying, enemy of Allah?" Then he said some even harsher
things and added, "I wish for a scorpion for the Messenger of Allah." When
someone asked him for fatwa about this man, lbn Abi Sulayman said,
"Testify against him and I will be your partner," i.e. in killing him and
getting the reward. Habib ibn ar-Rabi' said that is because trying to explain
away the literal expression is not accepted because it is clear contempt and
lack of respect for the Messenger of Allah. His blood is permitted.

20. Abu 'Abdullah ibn 'Attab gave a fatwa about a tax-collector who said to
a man, "Pay and complain to the Prophet. If I ask or am ignorant, the
Prophet was ignorant and asked," to the effect that he be killed.
21. The fuqaha' of Andalusia gave a fatwa that Ibn Hatim, the scholar of
Toledo, be killed and crucified because there was testimony that he made
light of what is due to the Prophet. In the course of a debate, he called him
"the orphan" and the in-law of the lion (i.e. Mawla 'Ali)," and claimed that
his doing-without (zuhd) las not intentional. He alleged that if he had been
able to have good things, he would have eaten them. He said other similar
things.

22. The fuqaha' of the Qayrawan and the companions of Sahnun gave a
fatwa for the killing of Ibrahim al-Ghazari, a poet and master of many
sciences. He was one of those who attended the assembly of Qadi Abu'l-
'Abbas ibn Talib for debate. He was accused of objectionable things like
mocking Allah, His Prophets and our Prophet. Qadi Yahya ibn 'Umar and
other fuqaha' summoned him and commanded that he be killed and
crucified. He was stabbed and crucified upside down. Then he was brought
down and burned. One of the historians related that when the post to which
he was tied was lifted up, the body turned around away from qibla. It was a
sign to all and the people said, "Allah is greater!" Then a dog came and
licked his blood. Yahya ibn 'Umar said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, spoke the truth," and he mentioned a
hadith in which the Prophet said, "A dog will not lick a Muslim's blood."

23. Qadi Abu 'Abdullah ibn al-Murabit said, "Whoever says that the
Prophet was defeated is asked to repent. If he repents, it is all right. If not,
he is killed because it detracts from the Prophet. Such a disparaging remark
could not be said about the Prophet by anyone with understanding of his
affair and certainty about his inviolability."

24. Habib ibn Rabi' al-Qarawi said that the school of Malik and his
companions is that anyone who says anything disparaging about the
Prophet is killed without being asked to repent.
 25. Ibn 'Attab said that the Book and Sunnah require that someone who
intends to even slightly harm or disparage the Prophet, either by allusion or
clear statement, must be killed.

26. Anything like this which is something that the 'ulama' consider to be a
curse or disparagement necessitates that the one who says it be killed.
Neither the early or later people disagree about that, but they disagree
about the basis for killing him as we have indicated. We will make this clear
later.

27. Qadhi Ayad al-Maliki says, "This is also my position regarding the
judgment of anyone who belittles him or insults him about having been a
shepherd, oversight, forgetfulness, sorcery, any wound he received, the
defeat of one of his armies, injury by an enemy, the intensity of his illness
or his being attracted to his wives. The judgment of all this is that the one
who intends to disparage him by it is killed. The position of the 'ulama' is as
we have already stated alHamduLILLAH!!"

Source:
Al-Shifa bi Ta'rifi Huqooqil Mustafa, Part 4, Section 1
By Imam Qadhi Iyad al-Maliki Alaihir raHmah wa ar-Ridwan