243 — Ibrāhīm ibn Rāshid Abū Ishāq narrated to me: Zayd ibn ʿAwf narrated to us, from Hammād ibn Salama, from an elderly man of Basra, from al-ʿAlā ibn Anas, from Anas ibn ⦗150⦘ Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: “Whoever hears his Muslim brother being backbitten and fails to defend him, though he is able to do so, Allah will overtake him in this world and the Hereafter.”