Answer
✅ Answer: Please pay attention to the following narrations:
1 عن هَارُونَ بْنِ الْجَهْمِ عَنِ الصَّادِقِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ: إِذَا جَاهَرَ الْفَاسِقُ بِفِسْقِهِ فَلَا حُرْمَةَ لَهُ و لَا غِیبَةَ.
📚 Amali Al-Saduq, p. 42, Hadith 7
Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: 'If a transgressor makes his transgression public, there is no sanctity or prohibition of backbiting for him!'
2 عَنْ أَبِی الْبَخْتَرِیِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِیهِ قَالَ: ثَلَاثَةٌ لَیْسَ لَهُمْ حُرْمَةٌ صَاحِبُ هَوًی مُبْتَدِعٌ وَ الْإِمَامُ الْجَائِرُ وَ الْفَاسِقُ الْمُعْلِنُ بِالْفِسْقِ.
📚 Qurb Al-Isnad, p. 82.
Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: 'Three types of people have no sanctity: the innovator with bad intentions, the unjust ruler, and the transgressor who makes his transgression public!'
3 عَنِ الرِّضَا قَالَ: مَنْ أَلْقَى جِلْبَابَ الْحَيَاءِ فَلَا غِيبَةَ لَهُ.
📚 Al-Ikhtisas, p. 242.
Imam Reza (peace be upon him) said: 'The one who has cast aside the veil of modesty, there is no backbiting for him!'
4 زَیْدٍ النَّرْسِیِّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِی الْحَسَنِ مُوسَی علیه السلام الرَّجُلُ مِنْ مَوَالِیكُمْ یَكُونُ عَارِفاً یَشْرَبُ الْخَمْرَ وَ یَرْتَكِبُ الْمُوبِقَ مِنَ الذَّنْبِ نَتَبَرَّأُ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ: تَبَرَّءُوا مِنْ فِعْلِهِ وَ لَا تَبَرَّءُوا مِنْهُ أَحِبُّوهُ وَ أَبْغِضُوا عَمَلَهُ قُلْتُ فَیَسَعُنَا أَنْ نَقُولَ فَاسِقٌ فَاجِرٌ فَقَالَ لَا الْفَاسِقُ الْفَاجِرُ الْكَافِرُ الْجَاحِدُ لَنَا النَّاصِبُ لِأَوْلِیَائِنَا أَبَی اللَّهُ أَنْ یَكُونَ وَلِیُّنَا فَاسِقاً فَاجِراً وَ إِنْ عَمِلَ مَا عَمِلَ وَ لَكِنَّكُمْ تَقُولُونَ فَاسِقُ الْعَمَلِ فَاجِرُ الْعَمَلِ مُؤْمِنُ النَّفْسِ خَبِیثُ الْفِعْلِ طَیِّبُ الرُّوحِ وَ الْبَدَنِ...
📚 Asl Zayd Al-Narsi, p. 51
Zayd Al-Narsi said: 'I said to Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): 'There is a man from your knowledgeable friends who drinks wine and commits destructive sins! Should we disassociate from him?!' The Imam said: 'Disassociate from his action, but do not disassociate from him! Love him, but hate his sinful deed!'
I said: 'Are we allowed to call him: a dissolute transgressor?!' The Imam said: 'No! The dissolute, transgressing infidel is the one who denies us and is a Nasi'b (one who harbors animosity and enmity) towards our friends! Allah has refused that our friends be dissolute transgressors, no matter what they do! But say: 'a transgressor in action, a dissolute in action! A believer in soul! Unclean in deed and pure in spirit and body!'
5 عن أَبِی حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِی جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ: یَجِبُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ عَلَی الْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ یَسْتُرَ عَلَیْهِ سَبْعِینَ کَبِیرَةً.
📚 Al-Kafi Vol. 2, p. 207
Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: 'It is a duty for a believer to conceal seventy major sins of another believer!'
5 عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِی عُمَیْرٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِی عَبْداللَّه قال: مَنْ قَالَ فِی مُؤْمِنٍ مَا رَأَتْهُ عَیْنَاهُ وَ سَمِعَتْهُ أُذُنَاهُ فَهُوَ مِنَ الَّذِینَ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِنَّ الَّذِینَ یُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَشِیعَ الْفاحِشَةُ فِی الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذابٌ أَلِیمٌ.
📚 Al-Kafi Vol. 2, p. 357
Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: 'Whoever transmits what his eyes have seen or his ears have heard about a believer, then he is one of those about whom Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, says (in Surah Al-Nur, verse 18): 'Indeed, those who love to see indecency spread among the believers, for them is a painful punishment!'
6 عن عَبْدالرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَیَابَةَ قال سَمِعْتُ أَبَاعَبْداللَّه یَقُولُ الْغِیبَةُ أَنْ تَقُولَ فِی أَخِیکَ مَا سَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَیْهِ...
📚 Al-Kafi Vol. 2, p. 358
Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: 'Backbiting is when you say about your brother what Allah has concealed for him!'
✅ Based on the above narrations and others, the Nasibis and enemies of the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) are dissolute and transgressors, and there is generally no sanctity or prohibition of backbiting for them.
However, if the Shia and lovers of the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them), whose beliefs are such that they do not fall outside the circle of Shiism, commit a transgression, and their transgression is hidden and concealed, if a believer becomes aware of their transgression, it is obligatory for him to conceal his sin and he does not have the right to backbite him or disclose that sin to others.
But if that Shia person makes his transgressing act public, then it is not backbiting to talk about that specific sin that has been made public, but his concealed sins must still remain concealed by the person who becomes aware of them.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَی مُحَمَّدٍ و آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَجِّلْ لِوَلِیِّکَ الْفَرَجَ و الْعَافِیَةَ و النَّصْر