The Islamic History Book

The concept of the Islamic world is useful in observing the different periods of Islamic history, similarly useful is an understanding of the identification with a quasi-political community of believers

Backbiting and Gossip

Ibn Jibreen Ibn Jibreen is Mentioning the Faults of -female- Servants in a Women’s Gathering Considered to be Gheebah -backbiting Or Gossiping- ?

Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Jibreen

Ten women got together, and each of them complained about their [female] servants in specific terms. is this gheebah?

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Muslim Brother Muslim Brother Ruling on Condemning People on the Internet

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

I am 22 years old and I am from XXXXXX .

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Azeez Ibn Azeez Ibn is it Backbiting If You Tell a Story That Happened Even If You Do not Mention the Names of the People Involved?

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah li’l-Buhooth al-‘Ilmiyyah wa’l-Ifta [26/15] .

If I tell the story of something that happened without mentioning any names, is that regarded as backbiting?.

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Backbiting and Gossip Backbiting and Gossip Repentance -tawbah- Involving Backbiting -gheeba- and Whether the Person Offended Must be Informed

Excerpts from the book I would like to repent BUT

I have committed backbiting involving a person or a group of people, or have unjustly slandered some people regarding things with which they didn't have anything to do. is it a condition of repentance that I should inform them and seek their pardon? And if this is not required then how do I repent?

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Paying Attention What is the Definition of Gheebah and What is the Ruling on It?

Shaykh Sulaymaan ibn Naasir al-‘Alwaani

What is the definition of gheebah and what is the ruling on it?

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Prophet Muhammad Prophet Muhammad Some Cases in Which Gheebah is Permitted

Fataawa Al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah li’l-Buhooth al-‘Ilmiyyah wa’l-Ifta’ [26/10] .

What are the situations in which it is permissible to talk about my Muslim brother in his absence and it will not be regarded as gheebah [backbiting] ?.

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Prophet Peace Prophet Peace is it Gheebah If She Complains About Her Relatives to Her Husband?

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

is the following backbiting? mother talking behind about her son to her another son or sister / wife talking to husband about her sister/brother and real brothers talking behind about another realbrother

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Backbiting and Gossip Backbiting and Gossip is it Obligatory to Seek Forgiveness of the Person You have Gossiped About?

Reference: Masaa’il wa rasaa’il by Muhammad al-Mahmoud al-Najdi, p. 61.

Is it obligatory for a person who has gossiped about a Muslim and wants to repent to Allaah to seek the forgiveness of the person about whom he gossiped? Does he have to tell him what he said about him behind his back, if he thinks that telling him about it may make him hate him? in this case does he have to tell him, or is it sufficient to ask his forgiveness without telling him what was said?

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Prophet Muhammad Prophet Muhammad is Warning People About a Man who is Known to Commit Evil Openly Regarded As Backbiting?

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah li’l-Buhooth al-‘Ilmiyyah wa’l-Ifta [26/8] .

Is warning people about a man who is known to commit evil openly, and is known to people for that, regarded as backbiting that people will be questioned about on the Day of Resurrection?.

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