and this is a weak chain of transmission. Fourth: from Ibn ʿAbbās, elevated [to the Prophet], similar to it. It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" with a weak chain of transmission.

"Backbiting is to mention about a person what he dislikes to hear." It was recorded by Mālik in "al-Muwaṭṭaʾ" (3/150 - al-Ḥalabī edition) from al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ṣayyād that al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥanṭab al-Makhzūmī informed him: "that a man asked the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): What is backbiting? The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: You mention... He said: O Messenger of Allāh, even if it is true? The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: If you say falsehood, then that is slander." It was also recorded by Ibn al-Mubārak in "al-Zuhd" (704) from Mālik with a similar narration. I say: And this is a mursal chain of transmission. Al-Muṭṭalib, this one, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taʿjīl": "He was frequent in sending [narrations] and his hearing from Abū Hurayrah was not authenticated, so perhaps he took from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʿqūb." Al-Ḥāfiẓ also provided a biography for al-Walīd, from which it is understood that he has no narrator except Mālik, and that Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in the third category of "al-Thiqāt". Al-Suyūṭī mentioned in the introduction of "Isʿāf al-Mubṭī bi-Rijāl al-Muwaṭṭaʾ": that all of Mālik's teachers are trustworthy, so it is a mursal with a sound chain of transmission, and it is supported by the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, elevated [to the Prophet] with its meaning, and I have extracted it in "Ghāyat al-Marām fī Takhrīj al-Ḥalāl wa-al-Ḥarām" (426). The ḥadīth was mentioned by al-Suyūṭī in "Zawāʾid al-Jāmiʿ" from the narration of al-Kharāʾiṭī in "Masāwī al-Akhlāq" from al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanṭab, elevated [to the Prophet] with the wording: "with what is behind him" with a fāʾ, meaning behind his back without his knowledge