Sunan Abi Dawud 4880
Regarding backbiting (al-ghibah)
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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَرْزَةَ الأَسْلَمِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ:
«يَا مَعْشَرَ مَنْ آمَنَ بِلِسَانِهِ وَلَمْ يَدْخُلِ الإِيمَانُ قَلْبَهُ لاَ تَغْتَابُوا الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُوا عَوْرَاتِهِمْ فَإِنَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ عَوْرَاتِهِمْ يَتَّبِعِ اللَّهُ عَوْرَتَهُ وَمَنْ يَتَّبِعِ اللَّهُ عَوْرَتَهُ يَفْضَحْهُ فِي بَيْتِهِ۔»
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Chain of narrators
- ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah
- al-Aswad b. ʿĀmir
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
- al-Aʿmash
- Saʿīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jurayj
- Abū Barzah al-Aslamī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: "O people who have believed by their tongue, and Īmān (faith) has not ˹yet˺ entered their hearts, do not back-bite ˹your fellow˺ Muslims, and do not look for their faults. For if anyone hunts for their faults, Allah will ˹expose˺ his fault, and if Allah ˹exposes˺ the fault of anyone, He disgraces him in his house."
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound Due to External Factors | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0, sunnah.com |