A fabricated supplication for missed prayers
Question
Is the following supplication, whose narrator [is said to be] Hazrat ‘Ali ﵁, established from the Prophet ﷺ, and does reciting it cause missed prayers, however many they may be, to be forgiven? The supplication is this: [ar]بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم، يا الله يا رحمن، اللهم يا عظيم من كل عظيم، يا كريم من كل كريم، اللهم يا أجل من كل جليل، اللهم يا أعز من كل عزيز، اللهم يا قديم من كل قديم، اللهم يا موجود من كل موجود، خلصنا من النار يا مجير يا مجير يا مجير، صَلَّى الله على خير خلقه محمد وآله أجمعين، برحمتك يا أرحم…
Answer
The claim that reciting this supplication causes missed prayers to be forgiven — to call it a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ is categorically a lie, it is haram and a cause of grievous calamity. For the saying of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is present in the books of hadith with an authentic chain, in these words: [ar]مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّدًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ…
Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya
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