{"id":4208,"date":"2016-01-05T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2016-01-05T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:13:32","slug":"backbiting-worse-adultery-verification-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=4208","title":{"rendered":"Backbiting is worse than adultery: Verification &amp; Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Question<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is the following hadith authentic?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Backbiting is worse than adultery?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"more-1160\"><\/span><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These words have been reported as a hadith via several very weak chains. It is therefore not suitable to quote this statement as a hadith of Nabi (sallalahu \u2018alayhi wa sallam).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However Imam Bayhaqi (rahimahullah) has recorded these words in Shu\u2019abul Iman as the statement of Sufyan ibn \u2018Uyaynah (rahimahullah). Hafiz Mundhiri (rahimahullah) says that this is more correct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Targhib, vol. 3 pg. 511)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The complete narration is as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sufyan ibn \u2018Uyaynah (rahimahullah) says: \u201cIn the sight of Allah, backbiting is worse than \u00a0adultery and consuming alcohol because adultery and consuming alcohol is between you and Allah, if you repent, Allah will forgive you. However backbiting is never forgiven until the person you spoke against forgives you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Shu\u2019abul Iman, hadith: 6314)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This narration is suitable to be quoted as the statement of Sufyan ibn \u2018Uyaynah (rahimahullah) and <strong>not<\/strong> as a hadith of Nabi (sallalahu \u2018alayhi wa sallam).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows best<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Moulana Suhail Motala<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Approved\u00a0by:<\/strong> Moulana Muhammad Abasoomar<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Checked by:<\/strong> Moulana Haroon Abasoomar<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hadithanswers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question Is the following hadith authentic? Backbiting is worse than adultery? Answer These words have been reported as a hadith via several very weak chains&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rulings","category-sharhul-hadith","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}