Abū Ubayda Abd al-Wārith ibn Abd al-Samad narrated to me: My father narrated to us: Anbasa ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Qurashī narrated to us, from Khālid ibn Yazīd, from Anas ibn Mālik—may Allah be pleased with him—who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The expiation for backbiting someone is to ask Allah to forgive him.”