73 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; Ahmad ibn Maniʿ narrated to us; al-Husayn ibn Muhammad narrated to us, from al-Masʿudi, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allah, who said: “If you state about a person what is truly in him while knowing that he dislikes it, you have backbitten him; and if you state what is not in him, you have slandered him.”