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Is a Muslim rewarded for reciting a remembrance (dhikr) or glorification (tasbih) that is sent to him via messages without him intending to recite it, and are the specific numbers of good deeds resulting from that valid?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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A Muslim is rewarded for every righteous deed he intends as an act of drawing closer to Allah. The mere existence of the original intention is sufficient for the reward to be attained, even if he does not know the virtues of the deed in detail. Writing or reciting the adhkar (remembrances) of Allah the Almighty is rewarded, even if it is done without full conscious calculation, because it does not waver between being an act of worship and a mere habit. However, the reward is greater if the intention is to draw closer to Allah. Prophetic hadiths have been reported regarding the virtue of tasbih (glorifying Allah), tahmid (praising Allah), takbir (magnifying Allah), and tahlil (declaring Allah's oneness), among them that whoever says "Subhan Allah" (Glory be to Allah), twenty good deeds are recorded for him and twenty bad deeds are erased from him, and whoever glorifies Allah one hundred times (tasbih), one thousand good deeds are recorded for him or one thousand sins are erased from him.

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