Salat Duha is Bid'ah

Here are Authentic aḥādīth from the Ahl al-Bayt (عليهم السلام) that says that salat al-duha is a bid`ah (innovation) and the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) forbade it and never prayed it.

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ وَ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ وَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ صَلَاةُ الضُّحَى بِدْعَةٌ

From Zurārah and al-Fuḍayl from Abī Ja`far (عليه السلام) and Abī `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام), that the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: “Salāh al-ḍuḥa is a bid`ah”
Source:

1.     Al-Kulaynī, Al-Kāfī, ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 8 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 3^rd Edition, 1388 AH), vol. 3, pg. 453, hadeeth # 9

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Hasan (Hasan)
à Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl, 26 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410 AH), vol. 15, pg. 418

رَوَى بُكَيْرُ بْنُ أَعْيَنَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ مَا صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الضُّحَى قَطُّ                    

It is narrated from Bukayr bin A`yan from Abī Ja`far (عليه السلام) said: “The Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) never prayed al-ḍuḥa”
Source:

1.     Al-Sadūq, Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh, (Qum: Mu’assasah al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 3^rd ed., 1413), vol. 1, pg. 565, ḥadīth # 1561

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī I (al-Majlisī’s father) said this hadeeth is Hasan Kal-Ṣaḥīḥ (Good like Ṣaḥīḥ)
à Rawḍah al-Mutaqqīn, 13 vols., (Qum: Mu’assasah al-Thuqāfiyyah al-Islāmiyyah, 2^nd ed., 1406), vol. 2, pg. 829

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ وَ ابْنِ مُسْلِمٍ وَ الْفُضَيْلِ قَالُوا سَأَلْنَاهُمَا عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ فِي رَمَضَانَ نَافِلَةً بِاللَّيْلِ جَمَاعَةً فَقَالَا إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص كَانَ إِذَا صَلَّى الْعِشَاءَ الْآخِرَةَ انْصَرَفَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَيَقُومُ فَيُصَلِّي فَخَرَجَ فِي أَوَّلِ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ لِيُصَلِّيَ كَمَا كَانَ يُصَلِّي فَاصْطَفَّ النَّاسُ خَلْفَهُ فَهَرَبَ مِنْهُمْ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ وَ تَرَكَهُمْ فَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ ثَلَاثَ لَيَالٍ فَقَامَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعِ عَلَى مِنْبَرِهِ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ بِاللَّيْلِ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ النَّافِلَةَ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ بِدْعَةٌ وَ صَلَاةَ الضُّحَى بِدْعَةٌ أَلَا فَلَا تَجْتَمِعُوا لَيْلًا فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ لِصَلَاةِ اللَّيْلِ وَ لَا تُصَلُّوا صَلَاةَ الضُّحَى فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ مَعْصِيَةٌ أَلَا وَ إِنَّ كُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٌ وَ كُلَّ ضَلَالَةٍ سَبِيلُهَا إِلَى النَّارِ ثُمَّ نَزَلَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَلِيلٌ فِي سُنَّةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ فِي بِدْعَةٍ

From Zurārah and Ibn Muslim and al-Fuḍayl, they said, we asked him (عليه السلام) about salāh in (the month of) Ramaḍān in the night in congregation (jamā `ah). He (عليه السلام) said: “Verily, the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) used to pray ishā’, he would depart to his house, then he would leave in the final part of the night to the Masjid and stand and pray in the first night in the Month of Ramaḍān, and the people lined up behind him and he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) would run away from them to his house and (kept) abandoning them (after) they did this for three nights (straight). And he stood up on the fourth day on his minbar, and praised Allāh and commended Him, then he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: “O People, verily the nāfilah salāh at night in the Month of Ramaḍān in congregation is bid`ah, and salāh al-ḍuḥa is bid`ah. And do not congregate at night in the month of Ramaḍān, and do not pray salāh al-ḍuḥa, for verily that it is a sin. And Verily, every bid`ah is astray, and everything astray leads to the fire”. Then he descended (the pulpit) and he (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said: “Few (actions) in sunnah is better than many (actions) in bid`ah”

Source:

1.     Al-Tūsī, Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, 10 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 4^th Edition, 1407 AH), vol. 3, pg. 69-70, hadeeth # 29

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic)
à Milādh al-Akhyār, 16 vols., (Qum: Maktabah Ayatollah al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī, 1406 AH), vol. 5, pg. 28