Musnad Abi Ya'la 6497

Translation

✧ "Do you know what backbiting is?" They said, "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said, "Mentioning your brother with what he dislikes." It was said, "What if my brother actually has what I say?" He said, "If he has what you say, you have backbitten him; and if he does not have it, you have slandered him."

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4874Sunan ad-Darimi 2756al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18235Musnad Abi Ya'la 6532al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3184al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3189

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥuraqī

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AH
   الْعَلَاءُصدوق ربما وهم
   أخبرني
4. 4
   Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 180 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Ayyūb

   the devout worshipper (al-ʿābid), trustworthy (thiqah)d. 233 AH, or 234 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَالعابد ، ثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أبو يعلى الموصلي

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