this is from (hearing), while what he mentioned is from (making heard), and there is a vast difference between them! 3- Furthermore, the meaning of (denunciation) mentioned in his interpretation is merely a metaphor for exposing the Jew or Christian and publicizing their faults; so is this a reason for entering the Hellfire mentioned in the ḥadīth?! O Allāh, guide us! It would have sufficed for that commentator to reflect on what the author Ibn Ḥibbān titled the ḥadīth; to realize the error in his interpretation first; and the error in the translation based on the severely abridged ḥadīth second; for he said as previously mentioned: ".. for whoever makes the People of the Book hear what they dislike"! he did not say: "hears of the People of the Book"! On this occasion, I say: One of the brothers—may Allāh reward him well—has informed me that the ḥāfiẓ al-Sakhāwī had preceded me in pointing out the error made by Ibn Ḥibbān; and that is in his book "Fatḥ al-Mughīth" (2/221) - under the section of limiting the narration to part of the ḥadīth -; he said: "This is Imām Abū Ḥātim Ibn Ḥibbān—and what a figure he is—who titled in his "Ṣaḥīḥ": (The obligation of entering the Hellfire for whoever makes the People of the Book hear what they dislike), and he narrated in it the ḥadīth of Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī with the wording: "Whoever hears a Jew or a Christian enters the Hellfire." Others followed him and used it as evidence for the prohibition of backbiting a dhimmī! All of this is incorrect, for the wording of the ḥadīth is: (Whoever hears of me from my nation, or a Jew or a Christian and does not believe in me; enters the Hellfire)." If it is said: Is this severe abridgment from Ibn Ḥibbān, or from one of his narrators?