What is the ruling on a man who died because he did not undergo cauterization, so that he would be among those who enter Paradise without being reckoned?

The questioner : Ibn 'Abbas [stated that] those who do not undergo cauterization are included among the people who enter Paradise without punishment. So if the man needs to write down what he requests, this thing, and expresses scrupulousness of this kind, even if he dies because he does not undergo cauterization.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : This is my situation.

The Shaykh : This hadith [means] they do not undergo cauterization; they do not ask anyone to cauterize them.

The questioner : Okay, it is easy.

The Shaykh : Because, as we said, medicine is not a certainty that benefits. And it passed us yesterday that healing only occurs when the remedy matches the disease; it may not match.

The questioner : He needed to cut the kohl, as it flowed in the equation. Then he cut the kohl, but.

The Shaykh : But Mu'adh did not say, "Cauterize." The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) sufficed them without them asking him.

The reader : And he said: "It was narrated to us by Shu'ayb from al-Zuhri."

The Shaykh : Do you think that the causes of entering Paradise without being reckoned are only these four? There are other causes, but the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned these four, just as sometimes he says three do not enter Paradise, and there are seven who wrong Allah in His shade, and more than that.