96 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: Muhammad narrated to me; Zayd b. al-Ḥubbāb narrated to us, from Ḥammād b. Salamah, from Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, who said:

They once discussed backbiting in the presence of Saʿīd b. Jubayr, and he said, “Whatever you address him with to his face and then repeat in his absence is not backbiting.”