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Hadith about Backbiting (Ghibah)

Authentic hadith on backbiting (ghibah), tale-carrying (namimah), and concealing others' faults — what backbiting is, the harm it does, and the reward for holding your tongue.

9 hadith

• They are being tormented, but they are not tormented for a major sin. One of them would not save himself from being soiled with his urine, while the other used to walk about spreading malicious gossip
• No slave covers another slave in this world except that Allah would cover him on the Day of Judgment
• Do you know who the bankrupt is?
• Do you know what backbiting is?" They said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "It is to say of your brother what he dislikes
• A scandalmonger will not enter Paradise
• Shall I tell you what ‘ada is? It is calumny which is committed among the people
• If you pursue the faults of the Muslims, you will surely corrupt them, or you will nearly corrupt them
• Verily, the devil has lost hope of being worshiped by those who engage in prayer in the Arabian Peninsula, but has not lost hope of sowing dissension between them
• The bankrupt in my Ummah is the one who will come on the Day of Judgment with prayer, fasting and Zakah, but since he hurled abuse at others, accused others of committing adultery without evidence, unlawfully consumed the wealth of others, and shed the blood of others and beat others, his good deeds will be credited to the accounts of others (who suffered at his hands)

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