And it is reported by Al-Sadouq, by his chain to Rasool-Allah -saww having said: ‘One who forbears upon his brother regarding a backbiting he had heard about him in a gathering, so he repels it away from him, Allah -azwj will Repel a thousand doors of evil away from him in the world and the Hereafter; and if he does not repel it while he is able upon repelling it, upon him would be like the burden (of sin) of the one who had backbitten him seventy times’’.
And by his chain to Al-Baqir -asws having said: ‘One in whose present his Momin brother is backbitten, so he helps him and assists him, Allah -azwj will Help him in the world and the Hereafter; and the one who does not help him and does not defend him while he is able upon helping him and assisting him, Allah -azwj will Drop him in the world and the Hereafter’’. وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: مَا النَّارُ فِي الْيُبْسِ بِأَسْرَعَ مِنَ الْغِيبَةِ فِي حَسَنَاتِ الْعَبْدِ.
And it is reported from the Prophet -saww having said: ‘The fire is not quicker into the dryness than the backbiting is in the good deeds of the servant’’. وَ ذَكَرَ قَوْلَهُ ص طُوبَى لِمَنْ شَغَلَهُ عَيْبُهُ عَنْ عُيُوبِ النَّاسِ وَ مَهْمَا وَجَدَ عَيْباً فَيَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَسْتَحْيِيَ أَنْ يَتْرُكَ نَفْسَهُ وَ يَذُمَّ غَيْرَهُ بَلْ يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَعْلَمَ أَنَّ عَجْزَ غَيْرِهِ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ فِي التَّنَزُّهِ عَنْ ذَلِكَ الْعَيْبِ كَعَجْزِهِ إِنْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ عَيْباً.
And he mentioned his -saww words: ‘Beatitude is for the one whose own faults pre-occupy him from faulting the (other) people, and whoever were to find a fault, it is befitting that he is embarrassed from leaving himself and condemning others, but it is befitting that he knows that inability of others in being removed from that is like his own inability, if that were to be a fault (in the first place)’’.