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1453 - الغيبَةُ وَالدِّينُ‏

1453. BACKBITING AND FAITH

4903.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : الغِيبَةُ أسرَعُ في دِينِ الرجُلِ المُسلمِ مِن الآكِلَةِ في جَوفِهِ .1

4903.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Backbiting eats away at a Muslim man’s faith faster than a gangrenous sore can eat away to the inside.’2

4904.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : مَنِ اغتابَ مُسلِماً أو مُسلمَةً لم يَقبَلِ اللَّهُ صَلاتَهُ ولاصيامَهُ أربَعينَ يَوماً ولَيلةً ، إلّا أن يَغفِرَ لَهُ صاحِبُهُ .3

4904.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Whoever backbites a fellow Muslim man or woman, Allah neither accepts his prayer nor his fasting for forty days and nights, until and unless the victim of his backbiting forgives him.’4

4905.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : يُؤتى‏ بأحَدٍ يَومَ القِيامَةِ يُوقَفُ بينَ يَدَيِ اللَّهِ ويُدفَعُ إلَيهِ كتابُهُ فلا يَرى‏ حَسَناتِهِ ، فيقولُ : إلهي ، ليسَ هذا كتابِي ! فإنّي لا أرى‏ فيها طاعَتي ؟ ! فيقالُ لَهُ : إنّ رَبَّكَ لايَضِلُّ ولايَنسى‏ ، ذَهَبَ عَمَلُكَ بِاغتِيابِ الناسِ . ثُمّ يُؤتى‏ بآخَرَ ويُدفَعُ إلَيهِ كتابُهُ فَيَرى‏ فيهِ طاعاتٍ كثيرَةً ، فيقولُ : إلهي ، ما هذا كتابِي ! فإنّي ما عَمِلتُ هذهِ الطَّاعاتِ ! فيقالُ : لأنَّ فلاناً اغتابَكَ فَدُفِعَت حَسَناتُهُ إلَيكَ .5

4905.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘On the Day of Resurrection, a man will be brought forth to stand before Allah, and his book of deeds will be presented to him, and he will not see any of his good deeds therein, upon which he will exclaim, ‘My God, this is not my book! For verily I do not see any of my acts of obedience therein?!’ So he will be told, ‘Verily your Lord neither loses nor forgets [deeds], but your deeds have gone because of your backbiting people.’ Then another man will be brought forth, and will be presented his book of deeds, and he will see many acts of obedience recorded therein, and will exclaim, ‘My God, this is not my book! For verily I did not perform all these acts of obedience!’ and he will be told, ‘It is because so and so backbit you, so his deeds have been transferred to you.’6

1.الكافي : ۲ / ۳۵۷ / ۱ .

2.al-Kafi, v. ۲, p. ۳۵۷, no. ۱

3.بحار الأنوار : ۷۵ / ۲۵۸ / ۵۳ .

4.Bihar al-Anwar, v. ۷۵, p. ۲۵۸, no. ۵۳

5.جامع الأخبار : ۴۱۲ / ۱۱۴۴ .

6.Jami al-Akhbar, p. ۴۱۲, no. ۱۱۴۴


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310 - الغِيبة

310. BACKBITING

1452 - النَّهيُ عنِ الغِيبَةِ

1452. PROHIBITION OF BACKBITING

(وَلا يَغْتَبْ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضاً أيُحِبُّ أحَدُكُمْ أنْ يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أخِيهِ مَيْتاً فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إنَّ اللَّهَ تَوَّابٌ رَحِيمٌ) .1

“And do not backbite about one another. Will any of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it. And be wary of Allah; indeed Allah is all-clement, all-merciful.”2

4897.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله: مَرَرتُ ليلةَ اُسرِيَ بي على‏ قَومٍ يَخمِشُونَ وُجوهَهُم بأظفارِهمِ ، فقلتُ : يا جَبرَئيلُ ، مَن هؤلاءِ ؟ فقالَ : هؤلاءِ الذينَ يَغتابُونَ الناسَ ويَقَعُونَ في أعراضِهِم .3

4897.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘On the night that I was taken on my Night-Journey [to the heavens], I passed by a group of people scratching their own faces with their nails, so I asked, ‘O Gabriel, who are these people?’ so he replied, ‘These are people who backbit about other people and disparaged their reputations.’4

4898.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : الغِيبَةُ أشَدُّ مِن الزِّنا ، قيلَ : وكيفَ ؟ قالَ : الرجلُ يَزني ثُمّ يَتوبُ فَيَتُوبُ اللَّهُ علَيهِ ، وإنّ صاحِبَ الغِيبَةِ لايُغفَرُ لَهُ حتّى‏ يَغفِرَ لَهُ صاحِبُهُ .5

4898.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Backbiting is worse than adultery’, at which he was asked, ‘How so?’ He replied, ‘A man commits adultery, then repents, and Allah pardons him for it, whereas the backbiter is not forgiven until his victim forgives him.’6

4899.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : الغِيبَةُ جُهدُ العاجِزِ .7

4899.Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Backbiting is the attempt of one who is incapable [of doing better himself].’8

4900.الإمامُ الحسينُ عليه السلام - لِرجُلٍ اغتابَ عِندَهُ رجُلاً - : يا هذا، كُفَّ عنِ الغِيبَةِ؛ فإنّها إدامُ كِلابِ النارِ .9

4900. Imam al-Husayn (AS) said to a man who was backbiting about a man in his presence, ‘Stop backbiting, for verily it is the food of the dogs of Hell.’10

4901.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام : لا تَغتَبْ فتُغتَبُ ، ولا تَحفِرْ لِأخِيكَ حُفرَةً فَتَقَعَ فيها ؛ فإنَّكَ كما تَدينُ تُدانُ .11

4901.Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Do not backbite lest you become a victim of backbiting, and do not dig a hole for your brother lest you fall in it yourself, for you will be paid back whatever you put in.’12

4902.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام : قالَ رَجُلٌ لعليِّ بنِ الحسينِ عليهما السلام : إنَّ فُلاناً يَنسُبُكَ إلى‏ أ نّكَ ضالٌّ مُبتدِعٌ ! فقالَ لَهُ عليُّ بنُ الحسينِ عليهما السلام : مارَعَيتَ حقَّ مُجالَسَةِ الرجُلِ حيثُ نَقَلتَ إلَينا حَديثَهُ ، ولا أدَّيتَ حَقِّي حيثُ أبلَغتَني عن أخي ما لَستُ أعلَمُهُ ! ... إيّاكَ والغِيبَةَ فإنّها إدامُ كِلابِ النارِ ، وَاعلَمْ أنّ مَن أكثَرَ مِن ذِكرِ عُيوبِ الناسِ شَهِدَ علَيهِ الإكثارُ أ نّهُ إنّما يَطلُبُها بقَدرِ ما فيهِ .13

4902.Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘A man once came and told Ali b. al-Husayn (AS) [i.e. Imam Zayn al-Abidin], ‘Verily x has said that you are astray and that you are an innovator!’ So Ali b. al-Husayn (AS) said to him, ‘Neither have you observed the right of the man you sat with by transmitting to us what he spoke about, nor have you observed my right by informing me of something about my brother which I would not have known! … Beware of backbiting for verily it is the food of the dogs of Hell, and know that whoever frequently talks about people’s faults, the frequency of his backbiting is a witness [to the fact] that he only finds faults in others according to the extent present in himself.’14

1.الحجرات : ۱۲ .

2.Qur’an ۴۹:۱۲

3.تنبيه الخواطر : ۱ / ۱۱۵ .

4.Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. ۱, p. ۱۱۵

5.الترغيب والترهيب : ۳ / ۵۱۱ / ۲۴ .

6.al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. ۳, p. ۵۱۱, no. ۲۴

7.نهج البلاغة : الحكمة ۴۶۱ .

8.Nahj al-Balagha, Saying ۴۶۱

9.تحف العقول : ۲۴۵ .

10.Tuhaf al-Uqul, no. ۲۴۵

11.بحار الأنوار : ۷۵ / ۲۴۹ / ۱۶ .

12.Bihar al-Anwar, v. ۷۵, p. ۲۴۹, no. ۱۶

13.بحار الأنوار : ۷۵ / ۲۴۶ / ۸ .

14.Ibid. p. ۲۴۶, no. ۸

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