What is the authenticity of the following Hadith?
“Whoever is not prohibited from immorality and evil by his Salah, then it will only increase him further from Allah Ta’ala”
Answer:
This Hadith has been reported through several chains and is more reliably recorded as a statement of the Sahabah (radiyallahu’anhum):
1) ‘Allamah ‘Iraqi (rahimahullah) states that Imam ‘Ali ibn Ma’bad has recorded this narration on his book ‘At Ta’ah Wal Ma’siyah’ with a reliable chain, (mursalan).
2) Imam Tabarani and others have also recorded this Hadith on the authority of Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbas (radiyallahu ‘anhuma) with a weak chain.
3) The narration has also been recorded as the statement of Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (radiyallahu ‘anhu) with a reliable chain and as the statement of Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbas (radiyallahu ‘anhuma).
Hafiz Ibn Kathir (rahimahullah) states that the attribution of this statement to the Sahabah [and not Nabi sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] is the most correct.
References
Al Mughni ‘An Hamlil Asfar, Hadith: 398, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Surah ‘Ankabut, Verse: 45, Ad Durarul Muntathirah, Hadith: 413, Kashful Khafa, vol. 2 pg. 332 and Fathul Wahhab of Ahmad Siddiq Al Ghumari, vol. 1 pg. 394
And Allah Ta’ala Knows best.
Answered by: Moulana Suhail Motala
Approved by: Moulana Muhammad Abasoomar
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