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What is the authenticity of the Hadith Qudsi: "By My might and My majesty, I do not seize My believing servant whom I desire to show mercy to except that I afflict him with every bad deed he committed, making it an illness in his body, or a scarcity in his provision, or a calamity in his wealth or his child, until I reduce him to the likeness of an atom. If anything remains, I intensify for him the pangs of death until he meets Me on the day his mother gave birth to him"?

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The aforementioned Hadith is very weak, almost fabricated. Among the indications of its weak chain of transmission is Al-Dhahabi's statement in his biography of Amr ibn Bakr al-Sakasaki: "His narrations are almost fabricated."

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