The ruling on leaving the congregational prayer on the excuse that the mosque congregation talks about people's reputations

Question:
May Allah reward you. We move on to a letter from a questioner in al-Taif who says: I hope the Honorable Shaykh Salih will answer my question. He says: I live with my family in a village, and this village has a small mosque. I do not go to pray in it because I dislike the people who pray in it, for these people are troublemakers. When they come out of the prayer, they stand at the mosque door and start backbiting about this person and that person, saying this and that. So, is there a sin on me for leaving the prayer with them?

Answer:
Yes, you are abandoning a great obligation. You must pray with them; it is obligatory for you to pray with them. If the people do good, do good with them, and if they do evil, avoid their evil. Do not sit in gatherings of backbiting and talebearing. You must admonish them and remind them, perhaps they will leave it. But do not leave the congregational prayer; you must pray with them. If they do not comply and accept the advice, do not sit with them. Pray with them and then leave; turn away from them. Yes.