Ablution after foul speech and backbiting

Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Performing ablution after an evil word is dearer to me than performing ablution after good food.

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) says: How strange it is that a person performs ablution after eating good food, but does not perform ablution after an evil word that he says to his brother!

An elder of the Ansar used to pass by a gathering of some people and say to them: "Repeat your ablution, for some of what you say is worse than hadath (that which breaks ablution)."

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) says: I asked Ubaydah: For which acts is ablution to be repeated? He said: For hadath (that which breaks ablution) and for causing harm to a Muslim.

Al-Harith says: I was holding Ibrahim's hand when I mentioned a man and backbit him. He said to me: Go and perform ablution again, for the predecessors used to count this as the worst of speech.

Once two men asked Ata: A man passed by us and we called him an effeminate (mukhannath). Ata asked: Did you say it before you prayed or after? They replied: We said it before the prayer. He said: Both of you perform ablution and pray again, for your prayer was not valid.

Abu Ishaq says: Once a verse of poetry containing satire came from the mouth of Abu Salih, so he called for water and rinsed his mouth.

Ja'far bin Burqan says: I asked al-Zuhri whether there is any speech, poetry or the like, that breaks ablution. He said: No.

Abu al-Aliyah says: Ablution is not broken by any speech, by abuse, or by idle talk.