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404. Mu'ādḥ bin Rifā'ah narrated that his father said: "I prayed behind Allāh's Messenger ﷺ. I sneezed and said: 'Al-Ḥamdulillāh, ḥamdan kathīran tayyiban, mubārakan fīh, mubārakan 'alaihi kamā yuḥibbu rabbanā wa yarda' (All praise is due to Allāh, many good blessed praises, blessings for Him as our Lord loves and is pleased with.) When Allāh's Messenger ﷺ prayed and turned (after finishing) he said: 'Who was the speaker during the Ṣalāt?' No one spoke. Then he said it a second time: 'Who was the speaker during the Ṣalāt?' But no one spoke. Then he said it a third time: 'Who was the speaker during the Ṣalāt?' So Rifā'ah bin Rāfi' bin 'Afrā' said: "It was I, O Messenger of Allāh." He said: "What did you say?" He said: "I said: 'Al-Ḥamdulillāh, ḥamdan kathīran tayyiban, mubārakan fīh, mubārakan 'alaihi kamā yuḥibbu Rabbanā Wa Yarda'." The Prophet ﷺ said: "By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! I saw thirty-some angels competing over which of them would ascend with it." (Hasan)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Anas, Wāil bin Ḥujr, and Āmir bin Rabī'ah
Abū 'Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Rifā'ah is a Hasan Ḥadīth. But it is
as if some of the people of knowledge consider this Ḥadīth to be about voluntary prayer, because more than one of the Tābi‘īn said that when a man sneezes in the obligatory Ṣalāt he only says Al-Ḥamdulillāh to himself, and they did not give any more leeway than that.
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Commentary
It is proven from this Ḥadīth that to say the mentioned phrases of supplication when sneezing is highly virtuous and it is a source of great reward.
