(ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) when he explicitly stated that verbalizing the intention in prayer is a sunnah! Even though the two Imams, al-Rāfiʿī and al-Nawawī, clearly stated that it is nothing. Such a pretender who contradicts the sunnah and the Imams in support of his desires and innovation, it is not surprising that he stands to fight against one who has dedicated himself to serving the sunnah and spreading it among Muslims, by slandering him and attributing "contradictions" to him. Allāh is his reckoner.

- "Whoever says in the morning: There is no deity but Allāh alone, with no partner, to Him belongs the dominion and all praise, He gives life and causes death, and He is over all things competent - ten times, Allāh will record for him ten good deeds for each time he says it, erase ten sins from him, raise him ten degrees, and it will be for him like freeing ten slaves, and it will be a protection for him from the beginning of the day until its end, and no deed will surpass it on that day. If he says it in the evening, it will be the same." Narrated by Aḥmad (5/420) and al-Ṭabarānī (4/151/3883) from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyāsh from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr from Khālid ibn Maʿdān from Abū Rihm al-Samʿī from Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) with it. I say: This isnād is authentic, Shāmī, and all its narrators are trustworthy, and Abū Rihm's name is Aḥzāb, and it has been said that he was a Companion. And it was narrated by Ibn Lahīʿah: Ḥaddathanī al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd from Rabīʿah ibn Muṭayr from Abū Rihm with it. Narrated by al-Ṭabarānī, number (3884). And Rabīʿah ibn Muṭayr I did not know, and in the margin: "Ibn Qaysar, correct," and I did not know him either. Among the narrators from Abū Rihm (whose name is Aḥzāb) is Rabīʿah ibn Qaysar, and it is said: Ibn Muṣbir al-Ḥaḍramī al-Miṣrī as in "Tahdhīb al-Mizzī," and in "Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān" (4/230): "Rabīʿah ibn Yūrā al-Miṣrī," and he is unknown. See "Taysīr al-Intifāʿ."