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This ḥadīth is a fabricated falsehood attributed to the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—as the leading specialists in ḥadīth criticism have affirmed, among them Abū Jaʿfar al-ʿAqīlī,
وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ كَذِبٌ مَوْضُوعٌ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - كَمَا ذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ أَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ بِالْحَدِيثِ؛ كَأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْعَقِيلِيِّ،