The ruling on using prayer beads for dhikr

Question:
What is the ruling on prayer beads? Are they a bid'ah (religious innovation)? Please clarify this for us. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
The prayer beads. The prayer beads are the prayer. However, the prayer beads refer to the string of beads that some people use to count their tasbih. There is nothing wrong with this, provided one does not believe that they have any special virtue, and one uses them only for counting, like pebbles. Each person holds pebbles in his hand, or each person holds beads, and counts his tasbih with them so that he does not make a mistake in the number. This is a means by which one assists himself in counting the tasbih, whether they are beads or pebbles. And counting the tasbih with one’s fingers is better, and tying the tasbih with one’s fingers is better and more excellent, because the fingers are among the limbs that one uses in the worship of Allah.
And they will speak and testify for him on the Day of Resurrection, so his tasbih with his fingers is better. And if he recites tasbih with the prayer beads or with pebbles, there is no blame on him, except if he believes that the prayer beads have a virtue. They have no virtue; they are permissible among the permissible things. Yes.

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May Allah reward you with good,