A Research-Based Review of a Weak Narration on the Virtues of the Last Three Verses of Surah Al-Hashr
📚 Source: Fatāwā ʿIlmiyyah, Volume 1, Kitāb al-Duʿāʾ, Page 491
❖ Inquiry:
Is the narration attributed to Sayyidunā Maʿqil ibn Yasār RA — stating that whoever recites the last three verses of Surah Al-Hashr (verses 22 to 24: هُوَ اللَّهُ… إِلَىٰ هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ) every morning and evening will receive the supplication of seventy thousand angels and, if they pass away, will attain the status of martyrdom — authenticated by any sound Hadith?
❖ Answer:
Al-ḥamdu lillāh, waṣ-ṣalātu was-salāmu ʿalā Rasūlillāh, Ammā Baʿd:
This narration, which is attributed to Sayyidunā Maʿqil ibn Yasār RA, appears in the following chains and classical sources:
📚 Chain of Transmission:
Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī → Khālid ibn Ṭahmān Abū al-ʿAlāʾ → Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nāfiʿ → Maʿqil ibn Yasār RA
📘 Referenced Sources:
- Sunan al-Tirmidhī, Kitāb Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān, Chapter 22, Ḥadīth 2922
- Musnad Aḥmad, Vol. 5, Pg. 26, Ḥadīth 2057
- Sunan al-Dārimī, Vol. 2, Pg. 458, Ḥadīth 3428
- ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah by Ibn al-Sunnī, Ḥadīth 80
- ʿAjālat al-Rāghib al-Mumtaniʿ, ed. Shaykh Salīm ibn ʿĪd Abī Usāmah al-Hilālī, Vol. 1, Pg. 131, Ḥadīth 81
- Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr by al-Ṭabarānī, Vol. 20, Pg. 229, Ḥadīth 537
- Kitāb al-Duʿāʾ, Vol. 2, Pg. 934, Ḥadīth 308
- Shuʿab al-Īmān by al-Bayhaqī, Ḥadīth 2502
- Natāʾij al-Afkār by Ibn Ḥajar, Vol. 2, Pg. 405
- Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān by Ibn al-Ḍarīs, Pg. 104, Ḥadīth 230
- Al-Kashf wa al-Bayān by al-Thaʿlabī, Vol. 9, Pg. 289
- Tahdhīb al-Kamāl by al-Mizzī, Vol. 19, Pg. 31
- Maʿālim al-Tanzīl by al-Baghawī, Vol. 4, Pg. 327
- Al-Amālī by Bishrān, Pg. 203/109
- Al-Tadwīn fī Akhbār Qazwīn by al-Rāfiʿī, Vol. 2, Pg. 495 (referenced by Shaykh al-Hilālī)
🔍 Evaluation of Narrators:
1. Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nāfiʿ
– According to the preferred opinion, this narrator is reliable (thiqah).
– Yaḥyá ibn Maʿīn has declared him trustworthy.
(Tārīkh al-Dūrī: 851)
2. Khālid ibn Ṭahmān
– Though he is truthful, he is considered weak due to ikhtilāṭ (mix-up in memory).
– It is not known whether he narrated this particular Hadith before or after his memory lapse, which renders the narration unreliable.
❌ Scholarly Critique:
Shaykh al-Albānī رحمه الله has also critiqued this narration.
Refer to: Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl, Vol. 2, Pg. 58, under Ḥadīth 342
Furthermore, as per Natāʾij al-Afkār, Vol. 2, Pg. 402, there is no authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) or good (ḥasan) supporting chain for this narration.
📌 Final Conclusion:
Since the chain is weak, and there is no supporting authentic or ḥasan narration to back it up, this narration cannot be acted upon as a basis for the virtue of reciting the last three verses of Surah al-Hashr.
Wa mā ʿalaynā illā al-balāgh
(Shahādat, November 2004)
Hādhā mā ʿindī wa-Allāhu Aʿlam bi-ṣ-Ṣawāb
