A fabricated (false) hadith the describes how to pray the special prayer of Nisf Shaban (Shab-e-Barat)
I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the night of the middle of the ˹month of˺ Shaʿbān. He stood and prayed fourteen rakaʿah (units) then sat down after finishing ˹the prayer˺. He then read (1) Umm al-Qurʿān (Fātiḥah 1) fourteen times, (2) "Say, He is Allah, the Unique" (al-Ikhlāṣ 112) fourteen times, (3) "Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of the Daybreak" (Falaq 113) fourteen times, (4) "Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind" (Nās 114), (5) Āyat al-Kursī (Baqarah 2:255) once, and (6) ˹the āyah˺ "There has certainly come to you a Messenger from among yourselves..." (Tawbah 9:128) ˹once˺. When he finished his prayer, I asked him about what he did. He said, "Whosoever does ˹an action˺ similar to what you saw, he shall have ˹the reward˺ of ˹completing˺ ten accepted Ḥajj and ˹the reward of˺ twenty years of accepted fasting. And if he was fasting on that day, then he will have ˹the reward˺ of sixty years ˹of fasting˺ both prior and future."
رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ الله ﷺ لَيْلة النِّصْفِ من شَعْبَانَ قامَ فَصَلَّى أربَع عشرة رَكْعَةً، ثُمَّ جَلَس بَعْدَ الْفَرَاغ فَقَرأَ بِأُمِّ الْقُرآنِ أربعَ عشرةَ مَرَّةً، وَ{قُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ} أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَة مَرَّةً، وَ{قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ} أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ مَرَّةً، وَ{قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ} أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ مَرَّةً، وآيَةَ الكُرْسِى مَرَّةً، وَ{لَقَدْ جَاءَكُم رسُولٌ مِنْ أَنْفُسكُمْ}. الآيَةَ، فَلمَّا فَرغَ مِنْ صَلاَتِهِ سَألتُهُ عَمَّا رَأَيْتُ مِنْ صَنِيعِهِ، قالَ: «مَنْ صَنَعَ مِثْلَ الذى رَأَيْتَ كانَ لَهُ كعِشْرِينَ حَجَّةً مَبْرُورَةً، وَصِيَامِ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً مَقْبُولَةً، فَإنْ أَصْبَحَ في ذَلكَ الْيَوْمِ صَائِمًا كانَ لهُ كَصِيامِ سَنَتَيْنِ سَنَةٍ مَاضِية وَسَنة مُسْتَقبلَةٍ۔»
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