Research-Based Review of 14 Weak and Fabricated Narrations on the Virtues of Surah Yaseen
📚 Source: Fatawa ‘Ilmiyyah, Volume 1, Kitab al-Du‘a, Page 493
❖ Inquiry:
Is the following narration authentic?
“Whoever recites Surah Yaseen every morning, all his needs for that day will be fulfilled.”
❖ Answer:
Al-ḥamdu lillāh, waṣ-ṣalātu was-salāmu ʿalā Rasūlillāh, Ammā Baʿd:
This narration appears in Sunan al-Dārimī: Vol. 2, Pg. 457, Ḥadīth 3421 (Verified Edition: Ḥadīth 3461):
“ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ (a Tābiʿī) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said…”
It has also been transmitted by the compiler of Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ under Ḥadīth 21277 from Sunan al-Dārimī.
However, this narration is weak due to its being Mursal, and the subject of “Balaghanī” (i.e., ‘it reached me’) has an unknown agent, thus rendering the chain of transmission unreliable.
📌 Detailed Review of Marfū‘ Narrations on the Virtues of Surah Yaseen
All the following narrations are weak (ḍa‘īf), rejected (mardūd), or fabricated (mawḍū‘):
① “Indeed, everything has a heart, and the heart of the Qur’an is Yaseen. Whoever recites Yaseen, it will be as if he has recited the Qur’an ten times.”
Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī: Ḥadīth 2887 (From Qatādah, from Anas RA)
Also referenced in Tablīghī Nisāb, Pg. 292; Faḍāʾil al-Qur’an, Pg. 58
Reason for weakness: Narrator Hārūn Abū Muḥammad is Majhūl (unknown).
Shaykh al-Albānī declared it fabricated.
(Al-Ḍaʿīfah: Vol. 1, Pg. 202, Ḥadīth 169)
Additional criticism: According to Imām Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, the narrator Muqātil ibn Sulaymān is a liar.
(ʿIlal al-Ḥadīth: Vol. 2, Pg. 1652)
② “Everything has a heart, and the heart of the Qur’an is Yaseen.”
Kashf al-Astār ʿan Zawāʾid al-Bazzār: Vol. 3, Pg. 87, Ḥadīth 2304 (From ʿAṭāʾ, from Abū Hurayrah)
Reason for weakness: Narrator Ḥumayd is Majhūl (unknown), and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Faḍl also lacks identification.
(Al-Ḍaʿīfah: Vol. 1, Pgs. 2–4)
③ “Whoever recites Yaseen at night will be forgiven by morning.”
Musnad Abī Yaʿlā: Vol. 11, Pg. 93–94, Ḥadīth 6324
Narrator: Hishām ibn Ziyād – Matrūk (abandoned)
(Al-Taqrīb: Pg. 364, T:7292)
④ “Whoever recites Yaseen at night seeking the pleasure of Allah, his sins will be forgiven that night.”
Al-Dārimī: Ḥadīth 342
Narrated by Ḥasan al-Baṣrī from Abū Hurayrah, but no proven meeting.
Ḥasan al-Baṣrī is a Mudallis, and narrated using ‘ʿan’, hence weak.
⑤ “Whoever recites Yaseen seeking Allah’s pleasure, his past sins will be forgiven…”
Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān: Mawārid al-Ẓamʾān, Ḥadīth 665
Narrator: Ḥasan al-Baṣrī from Jundub RA
According to Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī: “Ḥasan did not hear from Jundub.”
(Al-Mursal: Pg. 42)
⑥ “Recite Yaseen upon your deceased.”
Shuʿab al-Īmān by al-Bayhaqī: Ḥadīth 2458
Narrator Abū ʿUthmān is Majhūl, as is his father.
Appears in:
- Musnad Aḥmad (5/26, 27)
- Al-Mustadrak al-Ḥākim (1/565)
- Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (7/269, Ḥadīth 2991; verified version: Ḥadīth 3002)
- Sunan Abī Dāwūd (3121)
- Sunan Ibn Mājah (1448)
Imām al-Dāraquṭnī declared this narration weak.
A weak supporting chain exists in Musnad Aḥmad (4/105)
⑦ “Whoever recites Yaseen at night will be forgiven by morning.”
Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ: Vol. 4, Pg. 130 (From ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd RA)
Narrator: Abū Maryam ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn al-Qāsim al-Kūfī – Kadhdhāb (liar, fabricator)
(Lisān al-Mīzān: Vol. 4, Pg. 50–51)
⑧ “Whoever recites Yaseen, it is equivalent to twenty Ḥajj…”
Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ: Vol. 7, Pg. 136
Narrator: al-Ḥārith al-Aʿwar from ʿAlī RA
Reason for weakness: Narrator is extremely weak, and narration includes Tadlīs of Abū Isḥāq.
⑨ “I wish Yaseen was in every heart of my Ummah…”
Kashf al-Astār: Vol. 3, Pg. 87, Ḥadīth 2305 (from Ibn ʿAbbās)
Reason for weakness:
Narrator Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abān is weak
(Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb: Pg. 166)
⑩ “Whoever recites Yaseen during the throes of death… will die quenched…”
Al-Wasīṭ by al-Wāḥidī: Vol. 3, Pgs. 5–9
Narrators: Yūsuf ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Ṣaffār (abandoned), Hārūn ibn Kathīr (unknown)
(Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb: 7872, Lisān al-Mīzān: Vol. 6, Pg. 218)
⑪ “Whoever recites Yaseen, it is as if he recited the Qur’an ten times.”
Shuʿab al-Īmān: Ḥadīth 2459
Reason for weakness: Narrator Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah – Mursal narration
⑫ “Surah Yaseen is called ‘al-Munʿimah’ in the Torah…”
Appears in:
- Shuʿab al-Īmān: Ḥadīth 2465
- Al-ʿUqaylī: Vol. 2, Pg. 143
- Al-Amālī al-Shajarī: Vol. 1, Pg. 118
- Tārīkh Baghdād: Vol. 2, Pgs. 387–388
- Al-Mawḍūʿāt by Ibn al-Jawzī: Pg. 347, Vol. 1
- Tablīghī Nisāb: Pg. 292; Faḍāʾil al-Qur’an: Pg. 58–59
Reason for weakness:
Narrator Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Jadʿānī is Matrūk al-ḥadīth.
Other narrators are also Majhūl.
Imām al-Bayhaqī and al-ʿUqaylī considered it Munkar.
In another chain: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd ibn ʿĀmir al-Samarqandī is Kadhdhāb, thief.
⑬ “I have made it obligatory upon my Ummah to recite Yaseen every night… he will die a martyr.”
Al-Amālī al-Shajarī: Vol. 1, Pg. 118
Reason for weakness: Narrators:
- ʿUmar ibn Saʿd al-Wāqiṣī
- Abū Ḥamḍ ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ
- Abū ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm
All narrators’ reliability is unknown.
✅ A Ḥasan Narration:
In Sunan al-Dārimī, a statement of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbbās RA is recorded:
“Whoever recites Yaseen in the morning, his day will be made easy until evening; and whoever recites it at the beginning of the night, his night will be made easy until morning.”
(Sunan al-Dārimī: Vol. 1, Pg. 457, Ḥadīth 3422; Other edition: Ḥadīth 3462)
Narrators:
① ʿAmr ibn Zurārah – Thiqah, trustworthy
② ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī – Thiqah, memory affected later in life, but no narration is traced to his weak period
③ Rāshid ibn Najīḥ al-Ḥimānī – Ṣadūq, occasional mistakes
④ Shahr ibn Ḥawshab – Declared trustworthy by the majority
Conclusion: This narration is Ḥasan li-dhātihi
(Al-Ḥadīth: 17)
Also confirmed in Monthly Shahādat, Islamabad – January 2003
✦ Summary ✦
◈ All Marfūʿ narrations regarding the virtues of Surah Yaseen are either weak, rejected, or fabricated.
◈ However, the Mawqūf narration of Ibn ʿAbbās RA is Ḥasan and can be acted upon.
Hādhā mā ʿindī wa-Allāhu Aʿlam bi-ṣ-Ṣawāb
