02/02/2021
Recognizing that abandonment of Salah is Kufr without disagreement:
Muslim brought forth in his «Sahih» (82a):
“It is narrated on the authority of Jabir that he heard the Apostle (may peace and blessings be upon him) saying. Verily between man and between polytheism and unbelief is the negligence of prayer.”
«Sahih Muslim | Chapter: Clarifying the usage of the word Kafir for one who abandons Salat» 📕
Al-Bukhari brought forth in his «Sahih» (553):
“Narrated Abu Al-Maleh: We were with Buraida in a battle on a cloudy day and he said, “Offer the `Asr prayer early as the Prophet said, “Whoever leaves the `Asr prayer, all his (good) deeds will be annulled.”
«Sahih Al-Bukhari | Chapter: One who omits (does not
offer) the ‘Asr prayer (intentionally)» 📕
Al-Hakim brought forth in his «Mustadrak»:
“[12] Abdillah bin Shaqiq informed us: Abu Hurairah narrated: ‘The Companions of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم didn’t consider abandonment of anything to be disbelief except for the Salah’.”
«Al-Mustadrak An' Al-Sahiheen | Kitab Al-Iman» 📕
Ibn Habib Al-Maliki (238H) said:
“(After mentioning other categories)... And the Zhabiha (slaughtered sacrifice) of the abandoner of prayer is not to be eaten, nor the Zhabiha of the one who wastes it[s time] & is known for neglecting it & betakes to that until he apostates, this is also what was to me by those I
discovered from the companions of Malik about him regarding all of them.”
«Al-Muntaqi Min Sharh Al-Muwatta (3/22)» 📕
Imam Al-Shafei said: “It’s said to the one who abandons Salah without excuse until its time finishes:
'None other than you shall pray it, so pray or we will ask you to repent, so if you repent [all well & good]
otherwise we will kill you'. As he disbelieves, so we say [to him]: 'If you believe [all well & good] otherwise we will kill you'. And it is said: 'He is asked to repent thrice, so if he prays in them [all well & good] otherwise we will kill him & that is befitting by the Will of Allah.”
Ismail bin Yahya Al-Muzni (264H) said: “It is said regarding the Murtad (apostate) if he doesn’t repent,
he is to be killed, and he’s not to be awaited [for] three [days] due to the Prophet's (صلى الله عليه وسلم (saying: ‘strike off the neck of whoever leaves his religion'. And, he has made the abandoner of prayer without an excuse like the abandoner of Iman, hence he takes his ruling by Qiyas of his saying, because to him he’s the
same, & he’s not to be awaited [for] three [days].”
«Mukhtasar Al-Muzni Fi Furu’ Al-Shafeiyyah (pg.128)» 📕
Abu Bakr Al-Khallal brought forth in his «Sunnah»:
“[1000] Ismail bin Sa’id narrated: 'I asked Ahmad
about the Prophet's (صلى الله عليه وسلم (saying: 'He who cheats us is not of us; and he who takes up arms against us is not of us.’ This [is said] for emphasis & stressing, and I don’t Takfir anybody except for abandoning Salah.”
Muhammad bin Nasr Al-Marouzi said in «Tazeem Qadr Al-Salah»:
“[978] Hammad bin Zaid narrated:
Ayoub said: ‘Abandoning Salah is Kufr of which there is no difference’.”
Muhammad bin Nasr Al-Marouzi said:
“[990] I heard Ishaq say: 'It has been authenticated that the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم (said: 'The abandoner of Salah is a Kafir'. Likewise, was the view of the people of knowledge from [the time of] the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم (until our very day: that the intentional abandoner of Salah without an excuse until its time finishes is: a Kafir.”
«Tazeem Qadr Al-Salah» 📕
Ishaq bin Rahawayh said:
“And the scholars are unanimous that whoever insults Allah or His Messenger or rejects something which was revealed by Allah Glorified & Sublime be He or kills a Prophet from the Prophets of Allah is a Kafir even if he attested to everything which Allah Has revealed. Likewise, is the intentional abandoner of Salah until its time finishes. And they have agreed upon something in Salah which they haven’t agreed upon in the rest of the legislated acts.”
«Al-Tamhid (4/226)» 📕
