211 – Ahmad ibn Manīʿ also narrated to us: Ibn ʿUlayya narrated to us: Hishām al-Dastawāʾī narrated to us, from Hammād, from Ibrāhīm, who said: Ibn Masʿūd—may Allah be pleased with him—used to say: “Backbiting is to mention something about your brother that you know to be true of him. If you say something about him that is not true, that is slander.”