✍️Works of Ibn Abi al-Dunya

Blaming backbiting and gossip

ذم الغيبة والنميمة

Author: أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد بن عبيد بن سفيان بن قيس البغدادي الأموي القرشي المعروف بابن أبي الدنيا (المتوفى: 281هـ) (d. 281)

About this work

كتاب يجمع أحاديث وآثارًا في ذم آفات اللسان كالغيبة والنميمة والمراء والخصومات، ويبين ما يحل من الكلام وما يحرم، مع ذكر فضل الذب عن عرض المسلم وكفارة الاغتياب.

Translation

A book that collects hadiths and hadiths denouncing the evils of the tongue, such as backbiting, gossiping, hypocrisy, and quarrels, and explains what speech is permissible and what is forbidden, while mentioning the virtue of defying a Muslim’s honor and the expiation for backbiting.

Topics covered

Condemning the backbiting and gossip of the son of the father of the world
Chapter on slandering women
Chapter on what was mentioned in condemnation of concavity in speech
Chapter on denouncing discounts
Chapter on backbiting and its condemnation
Interpretation of backbiting
Chapter on backbiting, which it is permissible for its owner to speak about
Chapter on a Muslim lying about his brother’s honor
Chapter on what was mentioned in condemnation of gossip
Chapter on slandering the two-tongued
Chapter on what people are forbidden from making fun of one another
Chapter on expiation for backbiting

ذم الكذب - من الصمت وآداب اللسان