Authenticity of the Hadith Regarding the Supplication Upon Entering the Market
✍ Written by: Fatāwā Committee of Saudi Arabia
The Hadith regarding the supplication upon entering the market is weak (ḍaʿīf). The narration is as follows:
It is reported from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (رضي الله عنه) that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
❝Whoever enters the market and says:
«لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له، له الملك وله الحمد، يحيي ويميت وهو حي لا يموت، بيده الخير، وهو على كل شيء قدير»
Then Allah will record for him one million good deeds, erase from him one million sins, and raise him **one million degrees.❞
[Sunan al-Tirmidhī, Ḥadīth no. 3428]
However, this Hadith is not authentically established from the Prophet ﷺ.
It was narrated by Imām al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak, but a number of Hadith scholars have declared it defective (maʿlūl) and weak (ḍaʿīf).
Among those scholars is Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله), as quoted by Imām al-ʿAjlūnī in Kashf al-Khafā’, who noted that one of the narrators in its chain, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār Mawlā Āl al-Zubayr, is weak. Furthermore, the text of the narration is also regarded as munkar (rejected).
[Al-Lajnah al-Dā'imah: 16103]
✍ Written by: Fatāwā Committee of Saudi Arabia
❖ The Hadith Concerning the Supplication When Entering the Marketplace
The Hadith regarding the supplication upon entering the market is weak (ḍaʿīf). The narration is as follows:
It is reported from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (رضي الله عنه) that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
❝Whoever enters the market and says:
«لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له، له الملك وله الحمد، يحيي ويميت وهو حي لا يموت، بيده الخير، وهو على كل شيء قدير»
Then Allah will record for him one million good deeds, erase from him one million sins, and raise him **one million degrees.❞
[Sunan al-Tirmidhī, Ḥadīth no. 3428]
However, this Hadith is not authentically established from the Prophet ﷺ.
It was narrated by Imām al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak, but a number of Hadith scholars have declared it defective (maʿlūl) and weak (ḍaʿīf).
Among those scholars is Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله), as quoted by Imām al-ʿAjlūnī in Kashf al-Khafā’, who noted that one of the narrators in its chain, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār Mawlā Āl al-Zubayr, is weak. Furthermore, the text of the narration is also regarded as munkar (rejected).
[Al-Lajnah al-Dā'imah: 16103]
