158 – ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Idrīs narrated to me; Dāwūd ibn Muʿādh, the nephew of Makhlad ibn Ḥusayn, narrated to us; from one of his shaykhs; from Abū Ḥāzim—may Allah have mercy on him—who said: “Whoever backbites his brother should seek forgiveness for him, for that will atone for the sin.”