What is the ruling on the prayer of tasbih?

The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on the prayer of tasbih?

The Shaykh:
The prayer of tasbih is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and its report is weak and not authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); it is a bid'ah. Yes.

The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on what many people do in the mosques where they do not straighten their rows?

The Shaykh:
Tasbih; perhaps people do not know it. The prayer of tasbih: it is mentioned in a hadith that one recites while standing fifteen times: Subhan Allah, wa al-hamdu lillah, wa la ilaha illa Allah, wa Allahu Akbar, fifteen times. And when he bows, he says it ten times. And when he rises, he says it ten times. And when he prostrates, he says it ten times. And when he rises, he says it ten times, until he completes seventy-five in the first rak'ah. The second rak'ah is seventy-five, the third is seventy-five, and the fourth is seventy-five, totaling three hundred. He says: Subhan Allah, wa al-hamdu lillah, wa la ilaha illa Allah, wa Allahu Akbar. This is a bid'ah with no basis, and the hadith is weak and not authentic. Yes.