Is Watching Crime Documentaries Considered Backbiting? – Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat


Answered by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat

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Is Watching Crime Documentaries Considered Backbiting?

Among the increasingly popular documentary genres are crime documentaries. Shaykh Abdul-Rahim will address whether it is permissible to watch them and if doing so constitutes backbiting

Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat pursued Arabic Grammar and Morphology alongside his English and History degree. Post-graduation, he deepened his studies in Damascus, learning Arabic, Hanafi Fiqh, Theology, and more under notable scholars like Shaykh Adnan Darwish and Shaykh Rashad Shams. He continued in Amman, expanding into Tafsir, Hadith, Prophetic Biography, and other Islamic sciences, guided by teachers such as Shaykh Ali Hani and Dr. Hamza al-Bakri.