Question:
AsalamuAlaykum waRahmatullahi wabarakatu
What is the authenticity of this hadith?:
“Whoever recites the following Durood eighty times immediately after Asr Salaat on Friday, before standing up from his place, Allah will forgive eighty years of sins and grant him the reward equivalent to eighty years of worship: Allahumma salli alaa muhammadinin nabiyyil ummiyyi wa-ala aalihi wasallim tasleema.”
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
The wording asked about in the question is the one narrated from Abu Hurayra by Ibn Bashkuwal and also as a saying of Sahl al-Tustari as mentioned by al-Sakhawi in al-Qawl al-Badi` (`Awwama ed. p. 381-382).
It is mostly narrated in a simpler wording from Abu Hurayra (or Abu Dharr) and Anas, thus:
“Salawat on me is light on the Sirat. Whoever recites Salawat on me eighty times on Jumu`ah, Allah will forgive him eighty years of sins.”
By Ibn Shahin in al-Targhib (p. 94 no. 22), al-Khatib in Tarikh Baghdad (13:489), Abu Sa`d al-Naysaburi in Sharaf al-Mustafa, al-Daylami in Musnad al-Firdaws and al-Azdi in al-Du`afa‘ with a very weak chain as indicated by Ibn Hajar in Tasdid al-Qaws (2:568) and al-Daraqutni in his Atraf al-Ghara’ib wal-Afrad (2:282 no. 5158) who said:
حديث : «الصلاة* عليّ نور.. ». الحديث. غريب من حديث* علي بن زيد عنه،
تفرد به الحجاج بن سنان، وعنه السكن بن إبراهيم البُرْجُمي*، وعنه عون بن عُمارة.
Abu Talib al-Makki mentioned it in Qut al-Qulub followed by al-Ghazali in Ihya’ `Ulum al-Din in the wording given here.
Al-`Iraqi in al-Mughni said Ibn al-Nu`man graded it fair; so did al-Suyuti and al-`Ajluni in Kashf al-Khafa. This is the grading that has been received by the Shafii masters who adduced this narration in their books of fiqh such as Tuhfat al-Muhtaj, al-Iqna` and its marginalia, and I`anat al-Talibin. Hence we have seen it practiced in congregation on
the day of Jumu`ah by Shaykh Muhammad Sa`id al-Buti in his mosque.
See also al-Sakhawi’s discussion in al-Qawl al-Badi` (`Awwama ed. p. 380-382).
The hadith is supported by similar reports adduced by al-Zabidi in Ithaf al-Sadat al-Muttaqin (3:286), and Allah knows best.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
