Muwatta' Malik 56-10

Translation

Malik related to me from al-Walid ibn Abdullah ibn Sayyad that al-Muttalib ibn Abdullah ibn Hantab al-Makhzumi informed him that a man asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ "What is backbiting?" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "It is to mention about a man what he does not want to hear." He said, "Messenger of Allah! Even if it is true?" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If you utter something false, then it is slander."

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  والمطلب كان كثير الإرسال ولم يصح سماعه من أبي هريرة فلعله أخذه عن عبد الرحمن بن يعقوب

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1750

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
   al-Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥanṭab al-Makhzūmī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), practises much concealment (tadlīs) and narrates mursal oftend. around 120 AH
   المُطَّلِب بن عَبْد الله بن حَنْطَب المَخْزُومِيّصدوق كثير التدليس والإرسال
   أخبره
2. 2
   Al-Walīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣayyād
   الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ صَيَّادٍ
   عن
3. 3
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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