Are there cases in which backbiting is permissible?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Are there cases in which backbiting is permissible? Or in which backbiting is allowed? Or in which backbiting is lawful?
The Shaykh : Yes, in cases that some scholars have summarized in two lines of poetry. Since detailing them now would take too much time, pay attention to these two lines:
“Censure is not backbiting in six cases: *** The complainant, the identifier, and the warner,
"And one who openly commits open sinfulness, and one who seeks a ruling, and one who *** seeks assistance in removing a wrong."
Yes.
The questioner : Shaykh, the books you recommend for a student of knowledge to read regarding hadith.
The Shaykh : The answer to this has been given repeatedly and often before.
The Shaykh : Yes, in cases that some scholars have summarized in two lines of poetry. Since detailing them now would take too much time, pay attention to these two lines:
“Censure is not backbiting in six cases: *** The complainant, the identifier, and the warner,
"And one who openly commits open sinfulness, and one who seeks a ruling, and one who *** seeks assistance in removing a wrong."
Yes.
The questioner : Shaykh, the books you recommend for a student of knowledge to read regarding hadith.
The Shaykh : The answer to this has been given repeatedly and often before.
Source
www.al-albany.com
The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.