Whoever denotes backbiting that deserves to be backbiting to testimony has sinned, and that is why he added backbiting to us, saying, “And do not backbite one another,” so we made one origin with roots, for the part and the detail only refer to the whole. We did not depart from us, nor did we fall into anything other than us, so the matter was made more difficult for us in that, for the killer is himself. Paradise was forbidden to him, and it is a covering thing, for a thing cannot be hidden from itself, and whoever is mentioned as absent has become a witness, his estrangement from his homeland, and the death of a stranger is a witness.