There are four signs of a betrayer: disobeying God, causing distress to neighbors, harboring malice toward peers, and leaning toward defiance.
If you can avoid going out of your house, do so; for it is your obligation that if you do go out, you do not backbite, lie, envy, show off, pretend, or flatter.
There are four things that do not enter any house without ruining it and stripping it of blessing: betrayal, theft, drinking alcohol, and adultery.
Beware of befriending a fool, socializing with the immoral, and dealing with an oppressor!
Whoever mentions behind a person's back flaws that people already know about has not backbitten, but if he mentions behind his back flaws that people do not know about, then he has committed backbiting.