The sixth place where backbiting is permissible, which is seeking assistance in removing a wrong.

The Shaykh : The sixth and final type. He said: "And the one who seeks assistance in removing a wrong."
For example, if a person finds in his neighborhood or district—say—a bully who has opened his house as a place for intoxicants, or a brothel, or something similar, and the person is strong with his brother, so he alone cannot do anything. He goes to his neighbor so-and-so and his neighbor so-and-so, and so on, saying that so-and-so is doing such and such. Let us cooperate in the best way to speak to him, or, for example, write a petition against him or something similar. In this case, mentioning this person, even if he is concealing himself and is not an open sinner whose sin is public so that he falls under one of the previous categories—he is concealing himself, but his stench has spread and filled the neighborhood—therefore, it is permissible for one who wants to seek the help of the people of good and righteousness to cut off the harm of this person to say: "He was doing such and such and such." All of this is backbiting in the linguistic sense, but it is not backbiting in the legal sense. In this hadith, which we are currently discussing, an example was given of one of the six types, which is the permissibility of mentioning a person with what is in him, provided that the purpose is not "exposing people" as we say today, but rather the intention was to describe him and explain his condition to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) when he asked them, saying: . We said: "Jud ibn Qays, even though we consider him stingy."