156 – ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Abū Kuraib narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Laythī narrated to us, from Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj, from Mujāhid—may Allah have mercy on him—who said: “The expiation for having devoured your brother’s flesh—in other words, for backbiting him—is to praise him and to pray that Allah grant him good.”