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What is the authenticity and chain of transmission of the Hadith: "Allah looks into the heart of the Imam; if He finds it righteous, He accepts his prayer and the prayer of those with him. But if He does not find the Imam's heart righteous, He looks into the hearts of the congregants; if they are righteous, He accepts their prayer and the prayer of their Imam"?

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This hadith has no basis in the Sunnah collections; it is from the words of some preachers.

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