Cited from a tahqiq — print number not yet locked
Narrator: Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (r.a.)
لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ، وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Whoever says in the morning: ‘There is no god but Allah alone, He has no partner; to Him belongs the dominion and to Him belongs all praise, and He has power over all things’ ten times, Allah writes for him ten good deeds for each, erases from him ten bad deeds, raises him ten degrees; it equals freeing ten slaves and is a shield for him from the start of the day to its end. And the same reward is his if he says it in the evening.”
Grade
Attributed to Ibn Hibban from Abu Ayyub, without a ruling
Al-Suyuti
Jam‘ al-Jawami‘ no. 22595
The wording he collects concerns recitation after prayer; the “morning and evening” wording Sheikh Redwan cites has not been locked by Qawiy to a printed number.
Cited without stating a grade
Sheikh Redwan Muhammad Redwan
Himpunan Risalah, footnote no. 114
He attributes it to Ahmad, al-Tabarani, Sa‘id ibn Mansur and others.
Acting on a weak report in fada’il al-a‘mal
Imam al-Nawawi writes in al-Adhkar: “The scholars among the hadith specialists, the jurists and others have said: it is permitted and encouraged to act, in matters of merit and of encouragement and warning, upon a weak hadith — so long as it is not fabricated (mawdu‘).” As for rulings such as the lawful and unlawful, sale, marriage and divorce, these may rest only on a sahih or hasan report.
The conditions Ibn ‘Allan states in al-Futuhat al-Rabbaniyya (1/84): (1) the report is neither fabricated nor severely weak; (2) it falls under an established general principle; and (3) when acting on it one does not hold it to be established from the Prophet (peace be upon him), but acts out of precaution.
Al-Adhkar, al-Nawawi — section on acting upon a weak hadith
Notes
Qawiy has not found a ruling from any named muhaddith for the chain of this wording; its grade is still pending review.
The same tahlil — in the count of a hundred times a day — is established with a far stronger grade: Jami‘ al-Tirmidhi 3468 from Abu Hurayrah (r.a.), graded hasan sahih by al-Tirmidhi, and originally in Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim. The weakness here attaches to the “ten times morning and evening” wording, not to the words of tahlil themselves.