Question: The questioner says what is the level of authenticity of the hadith narrated by al-Baihaqee, “The best worship is recitation of the Quraan …”
Shaikh al-Albaani answered: It is weak.
[See As-Silsilah ad-Da’eefah, no. 2516]
Su’aalaat of Shaikh Ali Hasan al-Halabi, vol. 2, p. 250, no. 215
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