How authentic is the Hadith: "A prayer with a miswak is equivalent to seventy prayers without a miswak"?
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The aforementioned was weakened by Sheikh Al-Albani. Al-Shawkani said about it: The hadith, "A prayer with siwak is better than seventy prayers without siwak," Ibn Ma'in said, "It is false." Al-Bayhaqi said, "It has mutually supporting chains and corroborating evidences."
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