False report attributed to Zaynab (may Allaah be pleased with her) about healing of disease
Question

                Nowadays there are many messages that come via e-mail, telling of a person who was sick then Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allaah be pleased with her) came to him in a dream, and when he woke up he found that he had been cured of that sickness… Then the sender asks us to send this letter to a number of friends, and warns whoever does not do that of many things, ending with death. How sound is this letter?.
Praise be to Allah.
    This report that you are asking about is nothing new, but it 
    has become more widely disseminated nowadays because of the ease and speed 
    of communication via e-mail, combined with the ignorance of many who love 
    their religion. 

    There may be some variation in the details of these stories, 
    but they are all based on the same idea and all have the same bad effect on 
    people’s minds. 

    Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) 
    warned against them. There follows the text of his statement: 

    A note concerning a false report that is being 
    disseminated by some ignorant people:
, and blessings and peace be upon the 
    slave and Messenger of Allaah, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and 
    companions.   
    
    I have come across a false report that is being disseminated 
    by some ignorant people and people who have little understanding of the 
    religion of Allaah. The text of this report is as follows: 

    “In the name of Allaah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 
    Blessings and peace be upon the noblest of the Messengers, our Master 
    Muhammad  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and upon his 
    family and companions.  

    Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): 

    ‘No doubt! Verily, the Awliya’ [close friends] of Allaah, 
    no fear shall come upon them nor shall they grieve’

    [Yoonus 10:62]

    Allaah the Almighty has spoken the truth. 

    My Muslim brother, my Muslim sister. 

    A thirteen-year-old girl became very ill and the doctor was 
    unable to treat her. One night her sickness grew worse and she wept until 
    sleep overtook her. In her dream she saw Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allaah be 
    pleased with her). She put some drops in her mouth, and when she woke up 
    from her sleep she was completely healed from her sickness. Sayyidah Zaynab 
    (may Allaah be pleased with her) asked her to write this story thirteen 
    times and distribute it to the Muslims, to demonstrate the power of the 
    Creator, may He be exalted, and how it is manifested in His signs and His 
    creation, exalted be He above all that they associate with Him. The girl did 
    what was asked of her, and this is what happened: 

    1 – The first copy fell into the hands of a poor man, who 
    wrote it out and distributed it. Thirteen days later the Lord willed that 
    this poor man should become rich. 

    2 – The second copy fell into the hands of a worker who 
    ignored it. Thirteen days later he lost his job. 

    3 – The third copy fell into the hands of a rich man who 
    refused to write it out. Thirteen days later he lost all the riches that he 
    possessed. 

    Hasten, O Muslim brother or sister, after reading this story, 
    to copy it out thirteen times and distribute it to people, so that you may 
    get what you wish for from the Most Generous Lord, may He be glorified and 
    exalted. 

    May Allaah send blessings upon our Master Muhammad and upon 
    all his family and companions.” 

    When I read this false report I thought it essential to point 
    out that the benefits and good things that its author claims will come to 
    those who copy it and distribute it, and the bad things that will happen to 
    those who ignore it and do not disseminate it further, are all lies that 
    have no solid basis. Rather they are fabrications of the liars and 
    charlatans who want to divert the Muslims from putting their trust in their 
    Lord alone, with no partner or associate, to bring them benefits and ward 
    off harm from them, as well as taking the permissible means as prescribed in 
    sharee’ah, and who want to make them put their trust in someone or something 
    other than Allaah to bring benefits and ward off harm, and to take false 
    means that are not permitted or prescribed in sharee’ah, which leads them to 
    become attached to something other than Allaah and to worship someone other 
    than Him.  

    Undoubtedly this is one of the plots of the enemies of the 
    Muslims, who want to divert them away from their true religion by any means 
    possible. The Muslims should beware of these plots and not be deceived by 
    them. The Muslim should pay no attention to this false report and similar 
    reports which appear from time to time. Warnings have been issued about 
    several of them in the past. It is not permissible for a Muslim to copy out 
    this and similar reports, or to distribute them under any circumstances. 
    Rather doing that is an evil action and the one who does that is committing 
    a sin; there is the fear that he will be punished in this world and in the 
    Hereafter, because this is a bid’ah (innovation) whose evil is great and 
    whose punishment is severe. 

    This report is a kind of reprehensible innovation, and is one 
    of the means that lead to shirk and exaggeration concerning the Ahl al-Bayt 
    (members of the Prophet’s household) and others among the dead, and calling 
    upon them instead of Allaah and seeking their help and thinking that they 
    can bring benefit to or ward off harm from those who call upon them and seek 
    their help. It is also a kind of telling lies about Allaah. Allaah says 
    (interpretation of the meaning): 
“It is only those who 
    believe not in the Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, 
    revelations, etc.) of Allaah, who fabricate falsehood, and it is they who 
    are liars”
[al-Nahl 16:105]

    And the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
    him) said: “Whoever introduces something into this matter of ours that is 
    not part of it, will have it rejected.” Saheeh – agreed upon. 

    All the Muslims into whose hands this letter falls should 
    tear it up and destroy it, and warn people against it, and not pay any 
    attention to any promises or warnings that it may contain, because these are 
    false reports that have no sound basis and nothing good or bad will result 
    from that. But the one who invented it, those who copy it out and 
    distribute it, and those who promote it and disseminate it among the Muslims 
    are all sinning, because all of that comes under the heading of 
    cooperating in sin and transgression which Allaah has forbidden in His Book, 
    where He says (interpretation of the meaning): 

    “Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, 
    righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and 
    transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment”

    [al-Maa'idah 5:2]
 We ask Allaah to keep 
    us and all the Muslims safe and sound from all evil. Allaah is Sufficient 
    for us and He is the best to deal with those who fabricated this report and 
    similar reports, and introduced into the religion of Allaah things that have 
    nothing to do with it. We ask Allaah to deal with them as they deserve, for 
    telling lies about Allaah and disseminating falsehood, and for calling 
    people to the means that lead to shirk and exaggeration about the dead, and 
    distracting them with something that will harm them and will not benefit 
    them. Sincerity towards Allaah and His slaves demands that we point this 
    out. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon His slave and Messenger our 
    Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions. 

    Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz, 8/346-348. 
And Allaah knows 
    best.