Musnad Ahmad 7146

Translation

✧ 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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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4874

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
   يحدث 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
   الْعَلَاءَصدوق ربما وهم
   سمعت
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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