Musnad Ahmad 7146
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْعَلَاءَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَا الْغِيَابَةُ؟ قَالُوا: اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ. قَالَ: ذِكْرُكَ أَخَاكَ بِمَا لَيْسَ فِيهِ، قَالَ: أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ كَانَ فِي أَخِي مَا أَقُولُ لَهُ؟ ( يَعْنِي ) قَالَ: إِنْ كَانَ فِيهِ مَا تَقُولُ فَقَدِ اغْتَبْتَهُ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِيهِ مَا تَقُولُ فَقَدْ بَهَتَّهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
- Shuʿbah
- al-ʿAlāʾ Yuḥaddith
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ Do you know what backbiting is? They said, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said, “Your mentioning your brother with what he does not have.” He said, “Do you see if there is in my brother what I say about him?” He said, “If there is in him what you say, then you have backbitten him; and if there is not in him what you say, then you have slandered him.”
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