Ḥadīth of the Week

Abū Hurayrah (raḍiyallāhu ʿanh) reported Allāh’s Messenger (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wasallam) as saying: “Do you know what backbiting is?” They [the Ṣaḥābah] said: “Allāh and His Messenger know best.” Thereupon he (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wasallam) said: “Backbiting is your talking about your brother in a manner which he does not like.” It was said to him: “What if I find [that fault] in my brother which I made mention of?” He said: “If [that fault] is actually found [in him] what you assert, you, in fact, backbited him, and if that is not in him it is a slander.”

(Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim)