191 — Muhammad ibn Abī Hātim al-Azdī narrated to us: Dāwud ibn al-Muhabbar narrated to us: al-Rabīʿ ibn Sabīh narrated to us, saying: I heard al-Hasan—may Allah be pleased with him—say, “By Allah, backbiting eats away at a believer’s religion faster than a wasting disease eats away at his body.”