Is there a sound Hadith from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding writing "Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim" 130 times on the first of Muharram to bring happiness and ward off evil, or is this act an innovation?
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What your mother read has no basis indicating its legality; it is an innovation. Goodness lies in following the of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and evil lies in innovation in religion, as he, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever introduces into this matter of ours that which is not from it, it is to be rejected."
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