Chapter 16
Remembrance 4 from Chapter 16
Arabic
Romanisation
Ashhadu an lā ilāha illa-llāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, wa ashhadu anna Muḥammadan ‘abduhu wa rasūluh.
Context
We relate in the Musnad of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, the Sunan of Ibn Mājah and the book of Ibn as-Sunnī that Anas 
reported that the Messenger said: “Whoever performs wuḍū’ and does so faultlessly, and then says thrice I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, One without partner, and I bear witness that Muḥammad is His slave and Messenger will have the eight doors of Paradise opened for him, and may enter by any of them that he wishes.” [4].The isnād of this hadith is weak.
References
[4] Aḥmad (3/265), Ibn Mājah (469), Ibn as-Sunnī (32), and al-Futūḥāt (2/21–22). Ibn Ḥajar said that this is a gharīb hadith reported by Aḥmad, Ibn Mājah, Abū Ya‘lā, Ibn as-Sunnī and aṭ-Ṭabarānī. Its chain of narrators includes Umar ibn ‘Abdullāh ibn Wahb, who is exceedingly truthful (ṣadūq), who narrated from Zayd al-Ummī, who came from Basra and whose narration is weak according to the majority.