Musnad Abi Ya'la 6536

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ was asked about backbiting. He said: "Your mentioning your brother with what he dislikes." It was said: "O Messenger of God, what if what I say is true of my brother?" He said: "If it is in him, then you have backbitten him, and if it is not in him as you say, then 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
   الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ربما وهم
   أخبرني
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad

   Truthful (ṣadūq); he used to narrate from the books of others and would make mistakes.d. 182 AH, or 186 AH, or 187 AH, or 189 AH
   عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الدَّرَاوَرْدِيُّصدوق ، كان يحدث من كتب غيره فيخطئ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAmr al-Nāqid

   trustworthy (thiqah), a retainer of hadith (ḥāfiẓ), who made an error (wahima) in one hadithd. 232 AH, ʿUbayd b. Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-Bazzār said: the year 231 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ النَّاقِدُثقة حافظ وهم في حديث
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أبو يعلى الموصلي

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