The Virtue of Praying with the Miswak

Question : The questioner asks: What is the authenticity of the hadith that says, "A prayer with a miswak is seventy times greater than a prayer without a miswak"?

Answer : This hadith is weak; it does not change anything. Praying with the miswak is better, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is prescribed for a person to use the miswak for every prayer, and also for the ablution, and its place in the ablution is during the gargling.
It is also prescribed to wash the miswak and clean it, based on the statement of 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) when her brother came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) while he was on his deathbed, and 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, the brother of 'A'ishah, had a miswak with which he was using it, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) fixed his gaze on it, meaning he kept looking at it. She said: I knew that he loved the miswak while he was in the state of death, (peace and blessings be upon him). So I said to him: Shall I take it for you? He nodded his head, meaning yes. She said: So I took it and chewed it, meaning I broke it and cleaned it and prepared it to be suitable for using it, then I gave it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he used it. In this is evidence that one should take care of the miswak. As for what many people do today, you find one using his miswak without washing it for a month or a year, so the dirt remains accumulated on the miswak, and the miswak becomes a gathering place for dirt. When he uses it on his teeth, he adds dirt to their dirt, while he thinks that by doing so he has purified them. And if we return to the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in what is authentic from him from the hadith: we know the wisdom of the miswak and that its purpose is to purify the mouth and clean it by cleaning the miswak and maintaining its cleanliness and washing it. Yes. It is authentic regarding him. Yes. Yes. Symbol. Thank you, better than me. If I said the first one is weak, no, there is a second one. Yes, yes. The oral question, my brothers, the oral question is prohibited, whether it is initial or a comment.