Backbiting
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al-Gheebah - You must know not to backbite Muslims. Allah says,
“O you who believe! Avoid most doubt [about one another] for, behold, most of [such] doubt is [in itself] a sin; and do not spy upon one another, and neither allow yourselves to speak ill of one another behind your backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would loathe it! And be conscious of Allah. Verily, Allah is an acceptor of repentance, a dispenser of grace!” al-Qur’an, Surah al-Hujurat, 49: 12
Abu Hurairah (ra) narrated that the Prophet (saw) said:
"Do you know what backbiting is?" He said, “Allah and his Messenger know best." And the Prophet (saw) replied, "Saying behind someone's back what he doesn't like." So he was asked, "Even if it is true?" He (saw) replied, "If it is true then it is backbiting and if it is false, then it is slander." Saheeh al-Muslim, Hadith no. 2589 and Musnad Imam Ahmad, Hadith no. 2160 and Sunan al-Tirmizi, Hadith no. 1934
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