I have some simple questions from my Sunni friends. Most of you say that ALL Sahabah are not Munafiqeen, not even one single person. Let us
accept this opinion for a while. My question is :

     Were Monaafiqoon counted as Sahabah?

In other words:

   1)- Please define the word "Sahabah" clearly, and mathematically such that it is complete without any lack.
   2)- Please tell us that some people such as Abdullah-Ibn-Obai,
       who was the most famous Munafiq, are considered Sahabah or not?
   3)- Please tell us if other Munafiqeen who existed in the life time of the prophet were among Sahabah or not?
   4)- And if your answer to [3] is NO, please name all of Munafiqeen for us who are not sahabah. In other words, you should be able
       to distinguish between Sahabah and Munafiqeen. You should be able to categorize and NAME the Munafiqeen for us, all  of
       them. If not all of them, at least 100 of them. If you can not put a border between Sahabah and Munafiqeen, then how am I
       supposed to know who is Munafiq and who is one of the sahabah?
   5)- And if your answer to [3] is YES, which means that Munafiqeen were Sahabah, do you agree that I can bring one person who
       was Sahabah and was Munafiq as well, and his name is Abdullah-Ibn-Obai? Then, do you agree that I can think of some
       other sahabah who were Munafiq too or not?
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The truth is (I do not care if a Shia/Sunni likes this or not) that you can not announce a person as non-muslim when he says that:

       1)- There is no God, but Allah,
       2)- Muhammad is the true messenger of Allah.

If you call such person as non-muslim as easily as wind coming out of your mouth, you must prepare yourself for the hard time when facing
the fire of Allah. 

A person will remain muslim as long as he confesses the above two rules, no matter if he/she says:

        a)- A hadith is true or not,
        b)- One of Sahabah lied upon prophet or not,
        c)- One of sahabah has made adultry,
        d)- One of Sahabah has stolen something (or he is thief),
        e)- One of Sahabah has killed somebody intentionally and
               without having the right to do so,
        f)- One of sahabah has fought wrongly for the sake of Sheitan,
        g)- ...

Replace "Sahabah" with "A very respected scholar", and read it again.

The problem with the present society of islam is that people allow themselves to attack their brothers and sisters (Sunni or Shia) and
call each other as non-muslim. If these people get the power, they will kill whoever disagrees with them, as they did hundred years ago.
(Thanks God that they do not have the power now.) This ugly habit which is pleasing sheitan, and upsetting Allah is now spread over the entire
islamic societies.