What is the authenticity of the narration that reciting Surat Ad-Dukhan in the evening brings seventy thousand angels to glorify Allah for its reciter, and does it have any other virtues?
The hadith, "Whoever recites Ha Mim Al-Dukhan at night, seventy thousand angels will seek forgiveness for him in the morning," is weak or fabricated (mawdu'). Al-Tirmidhi declared it weak due to the presence of Omar ibn Abi Khath'am in its chain of narration, about whom Muhammad (Al-Bukhari) said that he was "munkar al-hadith" (denounced in hadith). Ibn Al-Jawzi and Al-Albani included it among the fabricated hadiths, while some hadith scholars considered it weak but not fabricated.
The meaning of the hadith is that Allah rewards the reciter of Surat Al-Dukhan at night by assigning seventy thousand angels to seek forgiveness for him. No authentic hadith has been reported regarding the virtue of Surat Al-Dukhan, including the hadith, "Whoever recites Ha Mim Al-Dukhan on the night of Friday, he will be forgiven," and the hadith, "Whoever recites Ha Mim Al-Dukhan on the night of Friday or on Friday, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise because of it."
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