Mention him with whatever is in him, the people can be careful of him’’.
Mention him with whatever is in him, the people can be careful of him’’. [6] Ahadith on Backbiting: Some Ahadith are presented related to fleeing from backbiting and backbiters.
(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Abbas Bin Aamir, from Aban, from a man we don’t know except as Yahya Al-Azraq who said, ‘Abu Al-Hassan -asws said: ‘ One who mentions a man from behind him with what is in him, from what the people do know, he is not backbiting him , and one who mentions it from behind him with what is in him from what the people don’t know, he is backbiting him , and the one who mentions him with isn’t in him, so he has slandered him’’.
[7] أَطْلِقْ عَنِ النَّاسِ عُقْدَةَ كُلِّ حِقْدٍ وَ اقْطَعْ عَنْكَ سَبَبَ كُلِّ وِتْرٍ وَ تَغَابَ عَنْ كُلِّ مَا لَا يَضِحُ لَكَ وَ لَا تَعْجَلَنَّ إِلَى تَصْدِيقِ سَاعٍ فَإِنَّ السَّاعِيَ غَاشٌّ وَ إِنْ تَشَبَّهَ بِالنَّاصِحِينَ (Amir Al-Momineen asws wrote to Al-Ashtar when sent him as a ruler over them): Free from the people the knot of every grudge and cut off from you the cause of every string (enmity), and be absent from all what is not clear to you, and do not be hasty to ratify (endorse) a backbiter , for the backbiter is a cheat and even he resembles with the advisers.
….. And the abundant greetings be upon His azwj Rasool saww and his saww Progeny asws , and submissive submission’’.
(an extract) [8] الكافي عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْغِيبَةُ أَسْرَعُ فِي دِينِ الرَّجُلِ الْمُسْلِمِ مِنَ الْأَكِلَةِ فِي جَوْفِهِ (The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘The backbiting is quicker in the religion of a Muslim man than the meal in his interior’.