Backbiting

BACKBITER:

104:1 - Woe to every (kind of) scandal-monger and backbiter 6266

6266 Three vices are here condemned in the strongest terms: (1) scandal-mongering, talking or suggesting evil of men or women by word or innuendo, or behaviour, or mimicry, or sarcasm, or insult; (2) detracting from their character behind their backs, even if the things suggested are true, where the motive is evil; (3) piling up wealth, not for use and service to those who need it, but in miserly hoards, as if such hoards can prolong the miser's life or give him immortality: miserliness is itself a kind of scandal. (104.1)

23:110 – "But ye treated them with ridicule so much so that (ridicule of) them made you forget My Message while ye were laughing at them! 2947

2947 Literally, 'they made you forget My Message'. The ungodly were so occupied in the backbiting and ridicule of the godly that the godly themselves became the unconscious cause of the ungodly forgetting the warnings declared by Allah against those who do not treat His Signs seriously. Thus evil often brings about its own ruin through the instrumentality of those whom it would make its victims. (23.110)

Sahih Muslim Hadith
Hadith 6265 Narrated by
AbuHurayrah

Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) said: Do you know what is backbiting? They (the Companions) said: Allah and His Apostle (peace be upon him) know best. Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Backbiting implies your talking about your brother in a manner which he does not like. It was said to him: What is your opinion about this that if I actually find (that failing) in my brother which I made a mention of? He said: If (that failing) is actually found (in him) what you assert, you in fact backbited him, and if that is not in him it is a slander.

Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 4.107b

Atonement for Backbiting

It is related that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "The atonement for backbiting [and slander] is to pray for forgiveness of the person who was slandered and to say, 'O Allah, forgive us and him'."

The preferable course in this regard is to pray for forgiveness of the person who was the target of the slander and to mention his good qualities. This will wipe off the effects of such backbiting, and it is not necessary to announce such a thing.

Al-Muwatta Hadith
Hadith 56.10

Backbiting

Malik related to me from al-Walid ibn Abdullah ibn Sayyad that al-Muttalib ibn Abdullah ibn Hantab al-Makhzumi informed him that a man asked the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, "What is backbiting?" The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "It is to mention about a man what he does not want to hear." He said, "Messenger of Allah! Even if it is true?" The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If you utter something false, then it is slander."

ISL Quran Subjects
Backbiting

1. (Also see) Blaspheming, Defaming, Maligning, Reviling, Slander, Slandering
49.12, 104.1, 104.2, 104.3, 104.4, 104.5, 104.6, 104.7, 104.8, 104.9

ISL Quran Subjects
Slandering

1. (Also see) Backbiting, Blaspheming, Blasphemy, Defaming, Maligning, Profanity, Reviling, Scandalmongering, Slander, Slanderers
24.11, 24.12, 24.13, 24.14, 24.15, 24.16, 24.17, 24.18, 24.19, 104.1, 104.2, 104.3, 104.4, 104.5, 104.6, 104.7, 104.8, 104.9

2. Chaste but careless believing women
24.23, 24.24, 24.25

3. Chaste women
24.26

4. Muhammad(S)
33.69

5. Religion by the Jews, of the
4.46

ISL Quran Subjects
Maligning

1. (Also see) Annoyances, Backbiting, Blaspheming, Blasphemy, Defaming, Hurting Remarks, Molesting, Profanity, Reviling, Slander, Slandering

2. Believers wrongfully
33.58

3. Muhammad(S)
9.61

ISL Quran Subjects
Defaming

1. (Also see) Backbiting, Blaspheming, Blasphemy, Maligning, Profanity, Reviling, Scandal-mongering, Slander, Slandering

2. Muhammad(S) in matters of alms
9.58

3. One another
49.11