The Meaning of the Hadith: A People Who Never Did Any Good

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Regarding the hadith narrated by the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhari and Muslim) that Allah will bring out from it a people who never did any good, is it said that the word "good" (khayr) is an indefinite noun in the context of negation, so it encompasses all good, and from this it is taken that the abandonment of prayer is not major shirk (associating partners with Allah)?

The Shaykh:
They never did any good, and they are from the people of faith; because they died, for example, they spoke the testimony of faith and then died, so their end was with tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and faith, and they died. They had not preceded this; their entire life was in disbelief and in sins. So when Allah willed good for them, they entered Islam, then death overtook them, and they died before they were able to perform deeds. They died upon tawhid; because Allah sealed their end with faith.
And in the hadith, the man , , so if Allah bestows favor upon a servant and he enters Islam, then death overtakes him. Suppose he spoke the two testimonies of faith while he was sound and healthy, then he was struck by a stroke and died. Throughout all this, he did nothing except that he spoke the two testimonies of faith, believing in them, knowing their meaning, meaning intending to act in accordance with their implications, but he was not able to. He died upon faith.
This is the one who never did any good in his life, except that his end was sealed with faith. As for the one who abandons the prayer, he is considered one of the apostates, not from the people of faith. If he dies in that state, he is an apostate, not from the people of faith, and his end was not sealed with good. Yes.

Another questioner:
The first one enters the Fire if he believed and did not work.

The Shaykh:
However, if he committed sins after entering Islam, major sins, he is exposed to entering the Fire. Yes. As for what was before Islam, it is forgiven , so what was before Islam, Allah forgives it, and Islam wipes it out. As for the major sins after Islam, that is a matter requiring detailed explanation.