Two sourceless Ahaadeeth about repentance of youth and fast of 'Arafah

26-11-2013 | IslamWeb

Question:

Salam 'alaykum...What is the authenticty of these ahadith: 1. If a young man repents, torment of grave is withheld from east to west for 40 days. 2. “Whoever fasts the Day of Arafa will have the reward of of ibadah for 2 years and whoever makes someone else aware of it, it is as if it had 80 years of ibadah of prayers ”[rough translation]

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

We have not found the two Ahaadeeth which you mentioned in the question in the books of Sunnah that we have at hand despite the large number of those. We have not even found them in the literature of Dha’eef (weak) and fabricated Ahaadeeth.

One should be careful not to attribute a saying to the Prophet which he did not say. While commenting on the Saheeh (sound) Hadeeth which reads: "Whoever says a Hadeeth on my behalf while he knows that it is a lie, then he is one of the two liars (i.e. either the one who invents a lie or the one who repeats it,; both are liars).” Imaam Ad-Daarimi said: “If a man narrates a Hadeeth while he does not know any evidence that it was said by the Prophet and he relates such a Hadeeth, then I fear that he is included in this Hadeeth (i.e. that he is one of the two liars).” [End of quote]

For information about the virtue of fasting the day of ‘Arafah, please refer to Fataawa 15873 and 81851.

Allaah Knows best.