It is narrated on the authority of Ikrimah that Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both, said that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah exalt his mention, said to the Al-Abbas b. Abdul-Muttalib: ‘O Abbas, My uncle! Shall I not give you, inform you, of something that if you are to do it, Allah would forgive all your sins, its past and present, its intentional and unintentional, its minor and major, its private and public? Pray four Rakat, in each read al-fatihah, and another surat…after you finish reciting (in the first rakat) say, while you are standing, SUBHANALLAH, AL-HAMDULILAH, LAILAHAHILLAALLAH, ALLAHU AKBAR 15 times, then make rukoo and say it 10 times, then go down to sujood and say it ten times in your sujood, then raise your head from the sujood and say it ten times, then make sujood and say it ten times, then raise your head and say it ten times…that is 75 in each rakaat, do it in all four rakaat. If you can pray this prayer every day then do it, but if you cannot then do it once a week, if you cannot than once every month, then if you cannot then once a year, if you cannot then once in a lifetime.’ (this is in the meaning of the hadeeth).
This hadeeth is Saheeh (authentic li-ghairihi) and is narrated in Abu Dawood (1297), Ibn Majah (1387) al-Haakim (1-308).
Al-Haafidth ibn Hajar said, ‘And in the narration of At-Tabrani: even if your sins were as the foam of the sea, or as much as the sand, Allah would forgive you…’
Abu Bakr b. Abi Dawood said that he heard his father say, ‘There is nothing in the Tasbeeh prayer more authentic than this hadeeth.’
Imam Muslim said, ‘There is no hadeeth with a better chain of narrators in this matter other than this…’ (i.e. Ibn Abbas narration).
The second hadeeth, which is also authentic (Saheeh li-ghairihi) is narrated on the authority of Abi Rafi’…it to is similar to the above (in its wording).
This narration was narrated by Ibn Majah, at-Tirmidthi, Ad’daar-Qutni, and al-Baihaqi.
Al-Baihaqi said, that Abdullah b. al-Mubarak used to pray the Tasbeeh prayer, this prayer was handed (to us) by the pious predecessors, and from this, the above hadeeth gains extra strength…!
At-Tirmidthi said, ‘this is a ghareeb hadeeth from the narration of Abi Rafi’ he then said, ‘Ibn al-Mubarak used to practice it, and other people of knowledge used to practice it also, and they mentioned its merits.’
