Why Did You Backbite

A saint had two disciples. One of them drank alcohol and fell unconscious in a gutter. The other complained to the saint. The saint said, ‘You are very insolent that you complain about him, and do not go and pick him up and take him home.’ The disciple went there immediately, picked up the drunkard and proceeded. When people saw this, they said that one drank excessively and the other drank a little less and is carrying the drunkard back home.

The saint wished to reproach him for backbiting on his brother.

(Malfuzat, Vol. 7, p. 78)