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Is it permissible to repeat the verse {My Lord, do not leave me alone} in prostration with the intention of having children?

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Question:
He says: A man appeared on one of the satellite channels and said that whoever says
My Lord, do not leave me alone [with no heir], while you are the best of inheritors."رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الْوَارِثِينَ
[Al-Anbya 21:89]
forty times while in prostration will be granted a son, and he said that this matter has been known through experience. What is the criterion for this? And has this statement been...

Answer:
...tested? If he is truthful, it is not a legislative ruling, and no legislative ruling is derived from it regarding this act. This is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and every bid'ah is misguidance. Also, the Qur'an is not recited in prostration;
My Lord, do not leave me alone [with no heir], while you are the best of inheritors."رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الْوَارِثِينَ
[Al-Anbya 21:89]
this is a verse from the Qur'an. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/504] هل يجوز تكرار آية {رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا} في السجود بنية الإنجاب؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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