Further, to inform you that whatever people bring to you they are liars and slanderers. "the rebuff to the slanderers". Eustorgius was also asked to judge the slanderers. The accused man, Safwan ibn Mu'attal, attacked one of the slanderers, Hassan ibn Thabit. On February 3, 1948, Stalin was presented with a typescript titled "Reply to Slanderers". The meter demands that line 12's "slanderers" function as two syllables.