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How sound is the Hadith: "When Allah opens Egypt for you, take from its people a dense army, for they are the best soldiers on Earth, and they are in ribat until the Day of Resurrection"?

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No one has attributed the aforementioned Hadith to the books of Hadith. Al-Sakhawi mentioned it in Al-Maqasid al-Hasana with its exact wording. Sheikh Muhammad bin Darwish al-Shafi'i stated that nothing authentic has been reported regarding the virtues of Egypt. Al-Ajlouni, in Kashf al-Khafa, mentioned Hadiths concerning the virtues of Egypt and judged some of them to be fabricated or severely weak.

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