The ruling on designating the month of Rajab for specific acts of worship

Question:
We ask your permission, our honorable Shaykh, to present these questions that have reached us from our dear listeners. We begin this episode with this question. The sender says: It has spread among people that the month of Rajab has a special virtue and specific acts of worship. He asks: Does this month, Rajab, have a special virtue? And are there specific, designated acts of worship in it?

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. The month of Rajab is one of the four sacred months in which Allah revealed: "Indeed, the number of months with Allah is twelve months in the Book of Allah on the day He created the heavens and the earth; of them, four are sacred. That is the right religion" This indicates the prohibition of fighting in these months.
As for anything other than that, the month of Rajab is like any other month; it is not designated for worship to the exclusion of other months, because it is not established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he designated it with any specific prayer, fasting, sacrifice, or anything else.
It was only the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) who held the month of Rajab in high esteem, and Islam came and invalidated that. Therefore, Rajab is not designated except for what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and His Messenger designated it for, which is that it is one of the sacred months. As for what some people do in later times, it is among religious innovations (bid'ah). Some of them designate it for fasting and fast the entire month. Some of them designate it for a prayer called the Prayer of Longings (Salat al-Raghayib). Some of them visit the Prophet’s city (Madinah) in the month of Rajab, believing that this visit has a special virtue and distinction. Some of them say that the Night of the Ascension and the Night Journey (al-Isra' wa al-Mi'raj) is in it, and they stand in prayer during that night. All of this is invalid (batil) and not correct, and it is not established from the Salaf (the earliest generations) that they did it.