[68] Forged Salaw?t and wide spread unauthentic Ah?d?th:
[1/ 68] The following Salaw?t are forged ones: Sal?tul ‘Usb?‘, the twelve Rak‘ah Sal?t on the night preceding Friday in which S?rah Al-Ikhl?s is recited ten times, the ten Rak‘ah Sal?t in which S?rah Al-Ikhl?s and the two Mu‘awiithatain are recited ten times each, the two Rak‘ah Sal?t reciting S?rah Az-Zalzalah fifteen or fifty times, doing Sal?tul Jumu‘ah four, eight of twelve Rak‘ahs, doing four Rak‘ah Sal?t before the Jumu‘ah Sal?t reciting S?rah Al-Ikhl?s fifty times, ‘?sh?r?’ Sal?t, Sal?tur Ragh?’ib, the Sal?t done on the nights of Rajab, the Sal?t done on the night preceding the twenty seventh of Rajab, the Sal?t done on the night preceding the fifteenth of Sha‘b?n -it consists of one hundred Rak‘ahs, in each of which S?rah Al-Ikhl?s is recited ten times, the Sal?t done on the night preceding the two Eids, the Sal?t done when one memorizes the Holy Qur’?n, the two-Rak‘ah Sal?t done after going between Saf? and Marwah on the Marwah yard, reciting all verses of Du‘?’s in the last Rak‘ah of Taraw?h Sal?t, reciting all the verses that include the Sajdah on the night when the Qur’?n is completely recited in the Tarawa?h Sal?t, congregating on the night when the Qur’?n is completely recited, setting up pulpits, reciting the song of farewell to Ramadan (1) and doing certain number of Rak‘ahs between the Maghrib and ‘Ish? Salaw?t.
Shaikh Al-Alb?n? said: ‘All the ah?d?th that state the recommendation of doing a certain number of Rak‘ahs between the
(1) See: “Al-Masn?‘ F? Ma‘rifatil Had?thil Mawd?‘” (no. 463) and (464), “Al-?th?r Al-Marf?‘ah Fil Akhb?ril Mawd?‘ah” -it names all the forged Salaw?t, “Al-Mawd?‘?t” (vol. 2 / p. 114), “Tanz?hush Shar?‘ah” (vol. 2 / p. 84), “Al-Faw?’id Al-Majm?‘ah” (p. 44), “Al-Man?rul Mun?f” (pp. 98 - 9), “Tafs?rul Qurtub?” (vol. 16 / p. 128) and “Mus?jalah ‘Ilmiyyah Bainal ‘Izz Ibn Abdis Sal?m Wa Ibn As-Sal?h Hawla Sal?tir Ragh?’ib”. Ab? Sh?mah Al-Maqdis? supported doing Sal?tir Ragh?’ib to be a Bid‘ah in his “Al-Ins?f Lim? waqa‘a F? Sal?tir Ragh?’ib Minal Ikhtil?f”, he reported all about it in his “Al-B?’ith ‘Al? Ink?ril Bida‘ Wal Haw?dith” (pp. 7 - ... ); in these pages, you could read about the innovated Sal?t done on the night preceding the fifteenth of Sha‘b?n (pp. 32 - ... ). See also Shaikh Hamm?d’s Al-Ans?r? treatise titled with: “Is‘?ful Khill?n Bim? Warada F? Lailatin Nisfi Min Sha‘b?n” and “Silsilat Al-Ah?d?th Ad-Da‘?fah Wal Mawd?‘?h” (vol. 2 / p. 328).