2.37. BACK-BITING (to be continued)

God says

O you who believe! Avoid most guesswork [about one another] – for, behold, some of [such] guesswork is [in itself] a sin; and do not spy upon one another, nor speak ill of each other behind their backs:* would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay you would loathe it! -- Q.49:12
* I.e., “Backbiting”

Furthermore, defer not to the contemptible swearer of oaths, [or to] the slanderer that goes about with defaming tales, -- Q.68:10,11

Woe unto every scandal-monger and fault-finder!* -- Q.104:1
* I.e., everyone who maliciously tries to uncover real or imaginary faults in others.

Prophet said

4. “To backbite a Muslim is transgression”– H: Bukhari and Muslim. N: Ibn Masud.

5. “When a servant (of God) recognizes his sin and then repents, God accepts his repentance.” – H: Bukhari and Muslim. N: Bibi Ayesha.


6. “The fornicator repents, but there is no repentance* for a backbiter ” -- H: Baihaqi. N: Anas.
*I.e., will not be accepted

7. Narrated Huzaifah that he heard the Prophet saying “A Qattar* will not enter paradise”—H:Bukhari
*A person who conveys disagreeable, false information from one person to another with the intention of causing harm and enmity between them.