Is it true that whoever prays forty prayers in the Prophet's Mosque will be granted immunity from hypocrisy?
The hadith: "Whoever prays forty prayers in my mosque without missing a single prayer, deliverance from the Fire and salvation from punishment shall be decreed for him, and he shall be cleared of hypocrisy" is weak and denounced, and cannot be used as proof. Al-Albani and Ibn Baz mentioned it. The good hadith narrated by Al-Tirmidhi suffices for it: "Whoever prays to Allah for forty days in congregation, catching the first takbir, two deliverances shall be decreed for him: deliverance from the Fire and deliverance from hypocrisy." This virtue is general for every mosque and is not specific to the Prophet's Mosque or the Sacred Mosque.
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