What is the authenticity of the hadith, "Whoever's prayer does not restrain him from indecency and wrongdoing, has no prayer," and in another narration, "he does not increase in anything but distance from Allah"?

The questioner : ... And in another narration What about these two hadiths?

The Shaykh : Both are not authentic hadiths, and one of them is more invalid than the other. .

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : ... These fabricated hadiths seem to have been fabricated for a very, very destructive and malicious plan. Why, my brother, do so many young people not pray? They tell you ... prayer, what is the point? Religion is about dealings ... and this is not a hadith; it is a hadith with no basis. He says, "I do not harm anyone," and they bring a hadith with no basis: "Two things you should not approach: associating partners with Allah and harming people". I am not an associate of partners with Allah, and I may be drowning in shirk (associating partners with Allah) but I do not know it. I do not associate anything with Allah, and I do not harm people; that is what he says. He adds to his words and says, "So-and-so prays, but ... he is a drunkard, a deceiver, and so on." So we say to him, "What do you think? Let us pray. There are now three types of people among us: one is like your story, he does not associate partners with Allah and does not harm people! A second one prays to Allah but harms people. A third one does not harm people, does not associate partners with Allah, and performs the prayer. Which is better? There is shirk in your view, yet this third one is the best. He cannot say, "If this one is a believer, this one is better." So what do you think? We advise these two: you, the first one, take the prayer of this deceiver and add it to yours, and your not harming people and your not associating partners with Allah, we give that to this deceiver. You become complete from the deficiency that was in you, and he also becomes complete from the deficiency that was in him. What do you want? You took this second example. Why did you not look at the third one, which is higher and nobler, by your own admission? The point is that this middle group, who get drunk and deceive people and pray, the result of the action, the result of this weak hadith, is that he returns to not praying and deceiving people at the same time. Who says that? Just as it came in the authentic hadith, which is from ... the hadiths, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This is in all the prayers. And this is as it came in the hadith: So for the one who does not have expiations, how many sins and disobediences accumulate upon him? They will burn him up. So this hadith, that "Whoever's prayer does not restrain him from indecency and wrongdoing, he does not increase in anything but distance from Allah through it" is invalid. As for that one which says "he has no prayer", Glory be to Allah, he has no prayer if he does not settle in it, if he does not bow, if he does not recite, and so on. It is well known to the scholars the pillars of prayer and its conditions. Let us suppose a person prayed and recited al-Fatihah, did not bow his head, bowed and settled in the bowing, did not recite, and so on. He raised his head from the bowing and did not say anything, prostrated and settled in the prostration and did not say anything, and testified, or rather sat for the tashahhud and did not recite anything, and said the taslim. This person prayed, but it is not the complete prayer described in the Qur'an: But the one who prays like this is better than the one who turns away from prayer entirely. And therefore, as it was said: "O my Lord, some evil is lighter than some"!
Another questioner: ... Abdullah

The Shaykh : How?
Another questioner: Close to Abdullah's prayer.

The Shaykh : But the first of the rain is drops, then it pours down. So, we ask your permission, do you allow us ... .