To what extent is the hadith authentic: "If a man looks at his wife and a woman looks at her husband, mercy envelops them, and if he takes her hand, sins fall away from between their fingers"?
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This is not authentically attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Al-Albani graded it as weak and ruled it to be fabricated.
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