1. One shall not authenticate a tale-teller because he is a Faasiq [one who commits sin openly] and a Faasiq’s testimony is unacceptable. Allah Almighty has stated:

یٰۤاَیُّهَا الَّذِیْنَ اٰمَنُوْۤا اِنْ جَآءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌۢ بِنَبَاٍ فَتَبَیَّنُوْۤا اَنْ تُصِیْبُوْا قَوْمًۢا بِجَهَالَةٍ

O believers! If any sinner brings you some news, so (you must) investigate it, in case you unknowingly cause suffering to some people.

[Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 26, Surah Al-Hujurat, Ayah 6)

2. One shall stop him from tale-telling, explain him and reveal the evil of his action [tale-telling] in front of him.

3. One shall have hatred towards him to please Allah Almighty because Allah Almighty dislikes a tale-teller and it is Wajib to have hatred towards the one who is disliked by Allah Almighty.

4. One shall not develop an ill-assumption for his Islamic brother, i.e. the one who has been backbitten, because Allah Almighty has stated:

یٰۤاَیُّهَا الَّذِیْنَ اٰمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوْا كَثِیْرًا مِّنَ الظَّنِّ٘-اِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ اِثْمٌ

O believers! Avoid too many suspicions; indeed some suspicions become sin. [Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 26, Surah Al-Hujurat, Ayah 12)

5. Whatever has been said to you should not lead you into curiosity (i.e. you start researching and investigating about it] and argument, and you start considering it to be the truth. Allah Almighty has stated: ‘وَ لَا تَجَسَّسُوْا’ Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: And do not search for (hidden) faults.

(Part 26, Surah Al-Hujurat, Ayah 12)

6. What you are stopping the tale-teller from, do not like it for yourself and neither mention his tale-telling ahead by saying that ‘he said this to me’.