What is the ruling on narrating unsound stories, such as the story of Ibn Al-Mubarak and the poem: "O worshiper of the Two Holy Mosques," and is the story of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sound, in which it is stated: "How many gods do you worship?" And what should we follow if late scholars deem a Hadith weak that a group of early scholars or one of them authenticated?

There is no harm in narrating common stories about the Salaf (pious predecessors), even if the authenticity of some of them is not definitively established, similar to the accounts of the Children of Israel, biographies, and historical narratives. Al-Iraqi said in his Alfiyyat al-Sirah: "Let the student know that the Siyar (biographies) gather what is authentic and what has been denied." As for the hadith "How many gods do you worship?", it was narrated by Al-Tirmidhi from Imran ibn Husayn, in which the Prophet (peace be upon him) asked his father, Husayn, about the number of gods he worshipped. He replied, "Seven: six on earth and one in heaven," and that the one in heaven is the one he hopes in and fears. The Prophet (peace be upon him) promised to teach him two phrases that would benefit him if he embraced Islam, which are: "O Allah, inspire me with guidance and protect me from the evil of my own soul." Al-Albani graded this hadith as weak.