Is the Hadith: "Whoever eats a morsel of unlawful (haram) food, his works or prayers will not be accepted for forty days" authentic or weak?
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Ad-Daylami narrated a from Ibn Mas'ud: "Whoever eats a morsel of unlawful () food, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights." This Hadith is weak and denounced (munkar). Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Tahir described it as fabricated (mawdu').
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