On the authority of ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: "Whoever sees a private part and conceals it is like one who has brought a buried-alive infant back to life."(1)

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(1) A ḥasan ḥadīth due to corroborating witnesses, though this chain of transmission is weak. Abū al-Haytham—whose name is Kathīr al-Miṣrī—is unknown. Kaʿb ibn ʿAlqamah was the sole transmitter from him. Ibn Yūnus said: His ḥadīth is defective. Al-Dhahabī said in *al-Mīzān*: He is not known. Despite this, al-Ḥākim authenticated it in *al-Mustadrak* 4/384, and al-Dhahabī concurred! Al-Bukhārī also recorded it in *al-Adab al-Mufrad* (758) via Bishr ibn Muḥammad, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, with this same chain. At its beginning: On the authority of Abū al-Haytham, who said: A group of people came to ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir and said: "We have neighbors who drink and commit such acts—should we report them to the ruler?" He said: "No..."

Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it in *al-Kubrā* (7242) via the route of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, from Ibrāhīm ibn Nushayṭ, with it.

Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it in *al-Kubrā* (7241) via ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, from al-Mubārak, from Ibrāhīm ibn Nushayṭ, from Kaʿb ibn ʿAlqamah, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir—mentioning it thus as a disconnected (mursal) report.

It is also in *al-Musnad* (17331).

See also what follows after it.

It has a supporting witness from the ḥadīth of Maslamah ibn Mukhallad, recorded by al-Khaṭīb in *al-Riḥlah* pp. 121–122, though it contains a break in the chain. Al-Ṭabarānī connected it in *al-Awsaṭ* (8129) with the wording: "Whoever conceals [the fault of] a believer, it is as if he brought a buried-alive infant back to life," then he turned his camel back. In its chain is ʿĪsā ibn Sinān Abū Sinān al-Qasmali, about whom al-Ḥāfiẓ said in *al-Taqrīb*: Of lenient standing in ḥadīth, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.

It has also been narrated from Maslamah with different wording, recorded by Aḥmad in his *Musnad* (16960) from him and from ʿUqbah with the wording: "Whoever learns of a sin of his brother and conceals it, Allah will conceal him for it on the Day of Resurrection." Aḥmad also recorded it in *al-Musnad* under number (17391) from ʿUqbah. See *al-Musnad*, the ḥadīths with the numbers (16959), (16960), and (17391).

It has another supporting witness from the ḥadīth of Shihāb, a man among the Companions, recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Kabīr* (7231). In its chain is Abū Sinān al-Madanī, its transmitter from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who is not known, and the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ, except for al-Ṭabarānī's shaykh Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Ḥalabī, who is trustworthy. =