al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3095
✧ Prohibition of Spying on Others' Faults
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُصْعَبُ بْنُ سَلَّامٍ، عَنْ حَمْزَةَ الزَّيَّاتِ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ السَّبِيعِيِّ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
خَطَبَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ حَتَّى أَسْمَعَ الْعَوَاتِقَ فِي بُيُوتِهَا، أَوْ فِي خُدُورِهَا، فَقَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ مَنْ آمَنَ بِلِسَانِهِ، لَا تَغْتَابُوا الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا عَوْرَاتِهِمْ، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ تَتَبَّعَ عَوْرَةَ أَخِيهِ تَتَبَّعَ اللهُ عَوْرَتَهُ، وَمَنْ تَتَبَّعَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَوْرَتَهُ فَضَحَهُ فِي جَوْفِ بَيْتِهِ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Ibrāhīm b. Dīnār
- Muṣʿab b. Sallām
- Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt
- Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī
- al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave us a sermon until the young women in their houses—or in their chambers—could hear him. He said: “O assembly of those who have believed with their tongues, do not backbite the Muslims, and do not seek out their faults. For whoever seeks out his brother’s fault, Allah will seek out his fault, and whoever Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, seeks out his fault, He will expose him even in the innermost part of his house.”
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 19801al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1153al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2939al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3783Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20328
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَ السَّبِيعِيِّثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), ascetic, sometimes had lapses (wahm)d. 158 AH, also said: 156 AHحَمْزَةَ الزَّيَّاتِصدوق زاهد ، ربما وهمعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. between 181 AH and 190 AHمُصْعَبُ بْنُ سَلَّامٍصدوق له أوهامحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 232 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ دِينَارٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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