Does weak faith remain in one who has never done any good?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good. The questioner asks how the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is to be directed and understood: “Take out faith,” which some scholars cite as evidence that a Muslim who has never done any good retains weak faith.

Answer:
Yes, faith requires action; faith without action is not sufficient, faith without action is not sufficient, because Allah has made action part of faith in many verses. If one leaves off action by choice, being indifferent to action, then he is not a believer. But if he leaves it off for an excuse, such that he was unable to act, and death overtook him before he was able to act, or he was ignorant and did not know and it was not explained to him, but he had faith and it was not explained to him, then his case is left to Allah. This is like the people of the period of ignorance (al-fatrah); the ignorant one to whom it is not explained is among the people of the period of ignorance, and his case is left to Allah. As for the one who knows the action and the value of the action and leaves it off, saying that faith without action is acceptable, taking the position of the Murji'ah, then he has no excuse. The hadith is only about the one who left off action for an excuse, unable to act with it, such as if a man was killed and he said, “There is no god but Allah,” believing in it and being certain of it, and then he was killed or died; this one is among the people of Paradise, as in the hadith about the man whom Usamah, a disbeliever, overtook. Usamah ibn Zayd pursued him to kill him for his disbelief. When he brought the sword down on him, he said, “There is no god but Allah.” Usamah and an Ansari man were pursuing him, and the Ansari man held back when he said, “There is no god but Allah.” As for Usamah (may Allah be pleased with him), he killed him, thinking that he had not said, “There is no god but Allah,” except to avoid the sword, so he killed him. When they came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he rebuked Usamah, saying, “Did you kill him after he said, ‘There is no god but Allah’?”
He said, “O Messenger of Allah, he only said it to avoid the sword.” He said, “Why did you not cut open his heart? Would you have known that he said it to avoid the sword?” What will “There is no god but Allah” do for him on the Day of Resurrection? So whoever says, “There is no god but Allah,” the sword is held back from him. If it becomes clear from him what contradicts Islam, he is ruled to be an apostate. If it does not become clear, he is a Muslim based on what he said. Yes.