Weak and fabricated ahaadeeth narrated by the Sufis

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah was asked about the words
which were narrated from the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), “My heaven and my earth
could not contain Me, but the heart of My believing slave contains Me”?

 He replied: 

What they mentioned is from the Israa’eeliyyaat
[reports narrated from Jewish sources], no isnaad is known for it from
the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). What it means is that Allaah
puts love and knowledge of Himself in the heart of His slave. 

The report, “The heart is the house of the Lord” is like
the first report. The heart is the home or seat of faith in Allaah and
of knowledge and love of Him.

 They reported the words, “I was an unknown treasure
and I wanted to be known, so I created mankind and taught them about
Myself so that they would know Me.” These are not the words of the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and I know of no isnaad
for this, either saheeh (sound) or da’eef (weak). 

They reported that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah created reason,
and said to it, ‘Come here,’ and it came. He said to it, ‘Go there,’
and it went. He said, ‘By My Glory and Majesty, I have not created anything
more noble than you. I shall reward and punish because of you.’” This
hadeeth is baatil (false) and mawdoo’ (fabricated) according to the
consensus of hadeeth scholars. 

They narrate the words, “Love of this world is the root
of all evil.” This is known from Jundub ibn ‘Abd-Allaah al-Bajali, but
there is no known isnaad from the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). 

They report the words, “This world is merely a step for
the believing man.” This is not known from the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or from the salaf of this
ummah or its imams. 

They report the words, “Whoever is blessed with a thing,
let him stick with it” and, “Whoever commits himself to something, let
him stick with it.” The first report was narrated from one of the salaf.
The second report is baatil (false), for whoever commits himself to
something may have to stick to it or he may not, according to what Allaah
and His Messenger have commanded. 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Do favours for the
poor, for tomorrow they will have authority, and what authority!” and,
“Poverty is my pride and I boast of it.” Both of these are lies and
are not known in any way in the well known books of the Muslims. 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I am the city of
knowledge and ‘Ali is its gate.” This hadeeth is da’eef (weak); indeed
it is mawdoo’ (fabricated) according to the scholars of hadeeth. It
was narrated by al-Tirmidhi and others, but it is a lie. 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “The poor will sit
down on the Day of Resurrection, and [Allaah] will say, ‘By My Glory
and Majesty, I did not deprive you of worldly things because you are
insignificant. Rather I wanted to raise your status on this Day. Go
to the place where the people are standing, and whoever gave you a piece
of bread, or water to drink, or clothes to wear, take him to Paradise.’”
The shaykh said: this report is a lie which was not narrated by any
of the scholars of hadeeth. It is baatil (false) and goes against the
Qur’aan and Sunnah and scholarly consensus (ijmaa’). 

They report that when the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came to Madeenah, the daughters
of al-Najjaar came out with daffs (hand-drums) and sang “Tala’a al-Badru
‘alayna min thaniyyat al-Widaa”, and the Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to them, “Shake your
tambourines, may Allaah bless you.” The hadeeth about women beating
the daff on joyous occasions is saheeh, and this was done at the time
of the Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), but it is not known that
he said, “Shake your tambourines.” 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “O Allaah, You have
brought me out of the place which is most beloved to me, so cause me
to dwell in the place which is most beloved to You.” This hadeeth is
also baatil (false), although it was narrated by al-Tirmidhi and others.
Rather he said to Makkah, “You are the most beloved part of Allaah’s
land to me.” And he said, “You are the most beloved land to Allaah.” 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever visits me
and my father Ibraaheem in one year will enter Paradise.” This is a
fabricated lie which was not narrated by any of the scholars of hadeeth. 

They report that a Bedouin prayed (quickly), pecking
(like a bird) in his prayer. ‘Ali (may Allaah be pleased with him) said,
“Do not peck in your prayer.” The Bedouin said, “O ‘Ali, if your father
had pecked in prayer he would not have entered Hell.” This is a lie. 

They report that ‘Umar killed his father. This is a lie,
for his father died before the mission of the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) began. 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “I was a Prophet when
Adam was between the water and the clay. I was a Prophet when Adam was
neither water nor clay.” This wording is false. 

They report the words, “The bed of a single man is fire.
Poor is the man who has no woman and the woman who has no man.” These
are not the words of the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). 

It was narrated that when Ibraaheem (peace be upon him)
built the Ka’bah, he prayed one thousand rak’ahs in each corner, then
Allaah revealed to him, “O Ibraaheem, this is not like feeding a hungry
man or clothing a man who cannot cover his ‘awrah.” This is obviously
a lie, and it is not known in the books of the Muslims. 

They narrate the words, “Do not despise tribulation,
for it will reap the hypocrites.” These words are not known from the
Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). 

They narrate the words, “Whoever teaches his brother
an aayah from the Book of Allaah becomes his master.” This is a lie
which is not known at all in the books of the scholars. 

They narrate that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “I looked at the sins
of my ummah and I did not find any greater sin than that of one who
learns an aayah then forgets it.” If this hadeeth is saheeh, what is
meant is forgetting in the sense of not reciting. The wording of the
hadeeth is: “Among the sins of my ummah is that of a man to whom Allaah
gave an aayah of the Qur’aan, but he neglected it until he forgot it.” 
This forgetting means turning away from the Qur’aan and not believing
in it or acting upon it. With regard to neglecting to study it until
one forgets it, this is a sin. 

They report the words, “One aayah of the Qur’aan is better
than Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. The Qur’aan is the word of
Allaah, revealed not created, and there is nothing like it.” This wording
was not reported from the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever learns something
beneficial and conceals it from the Muslims, Allaah will bridle him
with reins of fire on the Day of Resurrection.” A similar meaning is
to be found in al-Sunan: the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Whoever is asked
about a matter of [Islamic] knowledge which he knows but he conceals
it, Allaah will bridle him with reins of fire on the Day of Resurrection.” 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “When you come to
talk about disputes which took place among my companions, be quiet.
When you come to talk about the Divine will and decree (al-qadaa’
wa’l-qadar), keep quiet.” This was reported with munqati’ (broken
or interrupted) isnaads. 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to Salmaan al-Farsi
when he was eating grapes, “Du, du,” meaning eat them two by
two. These are not the words of the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him); this is baatil (false). 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Whoever commits zina
(fornication) with a woman and she gives birth to a girl, the fornicator
may marry his daughter who was born as a result of zina.” This was said
by those who were not among the companions of al-Shaafa’i. Some of them
attributed it to al-Shaafa’i, and some of the companions of al-Shaafa’i
denied that he said that. They said, he did not state that this is permitted,
but he did state that this is permissible in the case of radaa’ah (breastfeeding),
if he breastfed from the milk of a woman who got pregnant as a result
of zina. Most of the scholars, such as Ahmad, Abu Haneefah and others,
are agreed that this is haraam, and this is the stronger of the two
opinions narrated in the madhhab of Maalik. 

They report the words, “the most deserving thing for
which you take payment is the Book of Allaah.” Yes, it is proven that
[the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)] said, “The most deserving
thing for which you take payment is the Book of Allaah,” but that was
in the hadeeth about ruqyah (reciting Qur’aan and du’aa’s for the purpose
of healing), and the reward was for the recovery of that sick person,
not for the recitation. 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Whoever mistreats
a dhimmi (a Jew or Christian living under Islamic rule), Allaah will
be his opponent on the Day of Resurrection” or “I will be his opponent
on the Day of Resurrection.” This is da’eef (weak). What is known from
him is that he said: “Whoever kills a mu’aahid (member of a kaafir nation
which has a peace treaty with the Muslims) for no lawful reason will
not smell the fragrance of Paradise.” 

They report that the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever lights a
lamp in the mosque, the angels and the bearers of the Throne will not
cease to pray for forgiveness for him so long as the light of that lamp
is shining in the mosque.” I know of no isnaad for this from the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).