On silence Except when Speaking what is Good, Abandonment of what does not concern one, and Slander — Hadith 1

1. Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ḥātim ibn Abī Ḥātim [1] narrated to us saying, “We were informed by al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥammād, from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mukhtār who said, ‘One of our companions narrated to me from Abū Jaʿfar (a) who said, “It is sufficient as a flaw in a person that he sees those faults in others which he is blind to [and disregards] in himself, or that he should fault other people for a matter which is also in himself, and which he cannot turn away from; and that he disturbs the one who sits with him by [discussing] that which does not concern [or benefit] him. ”’”