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49:11 - O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter)
are better than the (former): Nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are
better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other nor call each other by
(offensive) nicknames: Ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness (to be used of one) after
he has believed: And those who do not desist are (Indeed) doing wrong. 49294930
4929 Mutual ridicule ceases to be fun when there is arrogance or selfishness or malice behind it. We may laugh with
people, to share in the happiness of life: we must never laugh at people in contempt or ridicule. In many things they
may be better than ourselves! (49.11)
4930 speaking ill of others by the spoken or written word, or in acting in such a way as to suggest a charge against some
person whom we are not in a position to judge. A cutting, biting remark or taunt of sarcasm is included in the word
lamaza. An offensive nickname may amount to defamation, but in any case there is no point in using offensive
nicknames, or names that suggest some real or fancied defect. They ill accord with the serious purpose which Muslims
should have in life. For example, even if a man is lame, it is wrong to address him as "O lame one!" It causes him pain,
and it is bad manners. So in the case of the rude remark, "the black man". (49.11)
49:12 - O ye who believe! avoid suspicion as much (as possible): for suspicion in some cases is a
sin: and spy not on each other nor speak ill of each other behind their backs. Would any of
you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay ye would abhor it...but fear Allah: for Allah is
Oft-Returning Most Merciful. 493149314932
4931 Most kinds of suspicion are baseless and to be avoided, and some are crimes in themselves: for they do cruel
injustice to innocent men and women. Spying, or enquiring too curiously into other people's affairs, means either idle
curiosity, and is therefore futile, or suspicion carried a stage further, which almost amounts to sin. Back-biting also is a
brood of the same genus. It may be either futile but all the same mischievous, or it may be poisoned with malice, in
which case it is a sin added to sin. (49.12)
4932 No one would like even to think of such an abomination as eating the flesh of his brother. But when the brother is
dead, and the flesh is carrion, abomination is added to abomination. In the same way we are asked to refrain from
hurting people's feelings when they are present; how much worse is it when we say things, true or false, when they
are absent! (49.12)
52:23 – They shall there exchange one with another a (loving) cup free of frivolity free of all taint of
ill. 5057
5057 Drinking or loving cups, in our life on this earth, are apt to be misused in two ways: (1) they may be occasions for
mere frivolity or the wasting of time; (2) they may lead to evil thoughts, evil suggestions, evil talk, or evil deeds. (52.23)
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 5.552
Ibn Umar
Narrated by
Allah's Apostle appointed Usama bin Zaid as the commander of some people. Those people criticized his leadership. The
Prophet said, "If you speak ill of his leadership, you have already spoken ill of his father's leadership before. By Allah, he
deserved to be a Commander, and he was one of the most beloved persons to me and now this (i.e. Usama) is one of the
most beloved persons to me after him."
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 8.78 Narrated by
Ibn Abbas
Allah's Apostle passed by two graves and said, "Both of them (persons in the grave) are being tortured, and
they are not being tortured for a major sin. This one used not to save himself from being soiled with his
urine, and the other used to go about with calumnies (among the people to rouse hostilities, e.g., one goes
to a person and tells him that so-and-so says about him such-and-such evil things). The Prophet then asked
for a green leaf of a date-palm tree, split it into two pieces and planted one on each grave and said, "It is
hoped that their punishment may be abated till those two pieces of the leaf get dried." (See Hadith No 215,
Vol 1).
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 4.76
The Prohibition Against Talking Ill of the Dead
It is not permissible to talk ill of the deceased Muslims or to mention their evil deeds. This is based on Bukhari's report from
'Aishah that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said: "Do not speak ill of the dead; they have seen the result of (the deeds) that
they forwarded before them." Abu Daw'ud and Tirmidhi have transmitted, but with a weak chain of narrators, from Ibn ' Umar
a similar hadith that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "Mention the good deeds of your dead and cover their evil deeds."
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