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Does the invalidation of good deeds for forty days—due to consuming unlawful earnings—also apply to wearing unlawful garments or riding something purchased with unlawful money, and what is the evidence for that?

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The hadith, "Indeed, the servant casts a morsel of the unlawful into his stomach, and no deed of his is accepted for forty days," is very weak. Therefore, it cannot be used as a basis for analogy concerning clothing or transportation.

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