Gossip is prohibited, but it is permissible in the following cases: 1. Grievance: Any complaint of injustice to the ruler, where one says: So-and-so has wronged me in this way to seek justice. 2. Consultation: Such as seeking advice regarding marriage, travel, partnership, residency, and safekeeping, where one can mention what they know with the intention of giving sincere advice. 3. Indicating a defect to someone who wants to buy something, mentioning it to the buyer, and similarly, if the buyer sees the seller giving counterfeit money, for example, one can say: Beware of this. 4. Seeking a fatwa: By saying to the mufti, So-and-so has wronged me in this way, and what is the way out? It is safer to say: What is your opinion about a man whose father, son, or someone else has wronged him in this way? However, being explicit is permissible to this extent; because the mufti may understand with specification what he cannot grasp with ambiguity. 5. With the intention of seeking help from someone capable of reprimanding him. 6. For the purpose of identification: Such as being known by their nickname like the limping one, the one-eyed, or the cross-eyed. 7. Critiquing the faults of the injured parties among narrators, witnesses, and authors is permissible, rather it is obligatory to protect the Sharia. 8. Mentioning the openly sinful: This is someone who does not conceal their actions and is not affected when it is said about them that they do such-and-such; it is permissible to mention them for what they openly do, but if they are concealing it, then gossiping about them is not permissible. 9. Gossiping about the unknown: There is no gossip except about someone known; even if the people of a village gossip, it is not considered gossip because they do not mean all of them, but rather some of them, and they are unknown. 10. Mentioning the faults of a brother out of concern does not constitute gossip; rather, gossip is when one mentions them out of anger intending to insult; because if it reached the person, they would not dislike it; they are concerned for them, saddened, and regretful about them. However, it is a condition that they are sincere in their concern; otherwise, they would be a hypocritical gossiper, praising themselves; because they have insulted their Muslim brother and revealed what they concealed, making it seem that they dislike this matter for themselves and others, and that they are among the righteous, as they did not engage in explicit gossip, but rather did so under the guise of concern, thus gathering various types of evils; we ask Allah for protection. 11. Mentioning the wickedness of the obstinate: Such as someone with bad beliefs like a heretic who conceals them and presents them to those who fall into their grasp; but if they openly declare them, they fall under the openly sinful. Likewise, someone who prays and fasts but harms people. See: Al-Durr Al-Mukhtar and Radd Al-Mukhtar 6: 408. Ibn Abidin organized them in Radd Al-Mukhtar 8: 409, saying: "What a person dislikes is prohibited to mention except for ten cases that are permissible: grievance, consultation, critique, indicating an openly sinful person, an unknown, and warning for the purpose of guidance, and identification, and seeking a fatwa, and seeking help from a reprimander, and being concerned, and warning against the wickedness of the obstinate."