How authentic is the hadith that mentions four people who add to the suffering of the people of the Fire on top of the suffering they already have, who run between Hellfire (al-jahim) and the scalding water (al-hamim), and which describes each one's punishment for particular deeds in this world?
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More than one scholar of has declared the hadith "Whoever mentions his brother with what is in him has backbited him" as weak. Al-Mundhiri, Al-Iraqi, Sheikh Al-Albani, and Sheikh Abu Ishaq Al-Huwaini all declared it weak due to defects in its chain of narration (), including disagreement about the companionship () of Shufayy ibn Mati' and the unknown status (jahalah al-hal) of Ayyub ibn Bashir Al-Ijli.
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