What is the ruling on backbiting the deceased?
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Question:
(What is the ruling) when some people, for example, mock the deceased?
Answer:
It is not permissible. Backbiting the deceased is more severe than backbiting the living, if the matter was concealed.
As for the apparent matter where the intention is to warn against it, because people may imitate him: it is explained that this is not permissible, and it is not permissible to imitate so-and-so in his religious innovation or in his apparent sin.
Q: Is he a caller to evil?
The Shaykh: Yes; the matter that is feared to be followed in evil, an apparent evil.
Q: If his evil is confined to himself?
The Shaykh: As for if his evil is hidden and not apparent, no, it is not investigated.
(What is the ruling) when some people, for example, mock the deceased?
Answer:
It is not permissible. Backbiting the deceased is more severe than backbiting the living, if the matter was concealed.
As for the apparent matter where the intention is to warn against it, because people may imitate him: it is explained that this is not permissible, and it is not permissible to imitate so-and-so in his religious innovation or in his apparent sin.
Q: Is he a caller to evil?
The Shaykh: Yes; the matter that is feared to be followed in evil, an apparent evil.
Q: If his evil is confined to himself?
The Shaykh: As for if his evil is hidden and not apparent, no, it is not investigated.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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