Hawzah News Agency- Muhammad ibn Musa ibn al-Mutawakkil (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar who narrated from Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Imran, from Abu Abd Allah al-Razi, from al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn al-Numan, from Asbat ibn Muhammad, by his chain of narrators tracing it back to The Holy Prophet (pbuh) that he said:
الْغِيبَةُ أَشَدُّ مِنَ الزِّنَا،
فَقِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، وَلِمَ ذَلِكَ؟
قَالَ: صَاحِبُ الزِّنَا يَتُوبُ فَيَتُوبُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ، وَصَاحِبُ الْغِيبَةِ يَتُوبُ فَلَا يَتُوبُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَكُونَ صَاحِبُهُ الَّذِي يُحِلُّهُ.
“Backbiting is worse than adultery.”
It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, why is that?”
He said: “The perpetrator of adultery repents, so Allah accepts his repentance. But the perpetrator of backbiting repents, yet Allah does not accept his repentance until his companion (the person he spoke ill of) pardons him.”
Al-Khisal,Book 2,Hadith 90
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