❓ Question: Assalamualaykum. Is the following ḥadīth reliable? It has been reported by Sayyiduna ibn ‘Abbās (may Allāh be pleased with them both) that Rasūl Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “The reward of the person who recites the following durūd, will be the cause of much work (of writing) for seventy angels for one thousand days.” Those words are: “Jazal lāhu ‘anā Muḥammadan mā huwa ahluhu.”
– Asked via email by Shadab A. [Ramaḍān 1444H – April 2023]
✍🏻 Answer: Walaykumusalam warehmatullahee wabarakatuhu dear brother,
The ḥadīth you have mentioned is not authentic, and here are some references to the ḥadīth along with the Arabic matn of the ḥadīth:
مَنْ قَالَ جَزَى اللهُ مُحَمَّدًا عَنَّا مَا هُوَ أَهْلُهُ أَتْعَبَ سَبْعِينَ كَاتِبًا أَلْفَ صَبَاحٍ
📕 Imām aṭ-Ṭabarānī: Al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr (11509 (11/206)); and al-Mu’jam al-‘Awsaṭ (235 (1/82))
📕 Imām Haythamī: Majma’ al-Zawā’id (17260 (20/419))
📕 Imām Abī Nu’aym al-Asbahānī: Ḥilyatul Awliyā’ (3/206)
📕 Kanzul ‘Ummāl (3900 (2/234))
📕 Imām Dhahabī: Mīzān al-‘Itidāl (4/291)
📕 Tārīkh al-Baghdād (9/296)
Imām Haythamī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) says in Majma’ al-Zawā’id: It is narrated by Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr, and al-Awsaṭ, and there is Hānī’ bin Mutawakkil, and he is ḍa’īf.
Shaykh al-Albānī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) declared it as very weak in Ḍa’īf at-Targhīb (1036 (1/514)); and Silsilah Aḥādīth aḍ-Ḍa’īfah (1077 (3/192)); and he also declared it as munkar (fabricated) in Silsilah Aḥādīth aḍ-Ḍa’īfah (5109 (11/188-189))
Shaykh Bashār ‘Awwād has also declared it weak in his taḥqīq of Tārīkh al-Baghdād (9/296).
It is declared with a very weak isnād by the muḥaqqiq of Ḥilyatul Awliyā’ (2/486) published by Darul Hadith, Cairo.
→ I say: There is another narrator named Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin al-Ḥajjāj bin Rishdīn bin Sa’d Abū Ja’far al-Miṣrī who has jarḥ on him.
And Allāh knows best.
Answered by Abū Rumayṣā’
Checked and verified by Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Thāqib Ishtiyāq (Bahrain)
15th Rabi al-Awwal 1445 – 30th September 2023