The Short letter of Gossip Rules by sayed Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Baqir Al-Ha'iri Al-Qazwini Al-Musawi (d.1262 AH/1845 AD), Study and investigation

Abstract

    The manuscript, despite its small size, is of great importance for two reasons. One of them is that backbiting has a fundamental effect in breaking the bonds of brothers and dissipating adherence to the rope of God Almighty. It is a disease diagnosed by the Noble Qur’an and made clear by the noble Prophet’s Sunnah. The manuscript made clear its symptoms and its effects on the fabric of human society, and its owner did not stop. Regarding the rulings on backbiting, rather, in his manuscript, he addressed the exceptions to them, the most beautiful of them, with seventeen instances that did not entail any prohibition, and he made it permissible to utter them while explaining the wisdom and reason for their permissibility. Sometimes it protects the person responsible from falling into Satan’s snares, and at other times it allows warning the believers of what will harm them religiously or worldly.

    As for the other matter, its writer, Mr. Ibrahim bin Muhammad Baqir al-Qazwini al-Ha’iri, nicknamed the author of al-Hawa’ib, is considered one of the scholars of al-Ha’ir al-Husseini. The scholars of his time and those who came after him praised him with great praise; Because of its jurisprudential strength, its investigative status, and its authority in scientific principles, this book contained extremely accurate information, and this became clear through a comparative study with the jurists preceding the author and those following him who wrote on the same subject.