Is it permissible for a sister to relay her brother’s words, in which he backbites their mother, to their other sister, knowing that the brother wishes his words to remain secret?
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Backbiting is forbidden, and it is even more forbidden concerning the mother, whose dutifulness and good treatment Allah has made obligatory.
The brother must repent to Allah for backbiting his mother, and whoever hears him backbiting must forbid him from it.
It is not permissible to convey backbiting to others because that is also backbiting, and it suffices to mention that the brother backbit his mother without details.
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