Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2664 — Censure of tale-bearing

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates from Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "There are three people whom Allah Almighty will curse on the Day of Resurrection: a man who turned away from his parents (that is, he cut off his ties with them or refused to acknowledge his lineage from them); a second who strove to separate a husband and his wife so that, after their separation, he himself could marry that woman; and a third who strove to spread mischief among the believers through tale-bearing and talk, so that they would become enemies of one another and harbour hatred and rancour among themselves."
In the chain of this report, Baqiyyah bin al-Walid is a "mudallis" and he did not state explicitly that he heard it from Habib bin Najih; moreover, Habib took it from unnamed narrators (some of the people of Madinah). Therefore, in terms of scholarly and technical assessment, this report is da'if (weak).