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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Do we take the apparent meaning of the hadith: "Whoever abandons the 'Asr prayer, his deeds are nullified"?

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The questioner : He says: If we do not take the apparent meaning of the hadith
Whoever abandons the 'Asr prayer, his deeds are nullifiedمن ترك صلاة العصر أحبط عمله
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2:34
and the intended meaning is the nullification of past deeds, not future ones, and that does not imply disbelief, this is an error, because the intended meaning is the nullification of the past, even for those who say that nullification is disbelief regarding the past. As for the future, if he repents, Allah accepts his repentance. This paragraph is considered void. So, do we say that, looking at the saying of Allah the Exalted
And what prevents their expenditures from being accepted from them but that they have disbelieved in Allah and in His Messengerوَمَا مَنَعَهُمْ أَن تُقْبَلَ مِنْهُمْ نَفَقَاتُهُمْ إِلَّا أَنَّهُمْ كَفَرُوا بِاللَّهِ وَبِرَسُولِهِ
[At-Tawbah 9:54]
the verse, and the interpretation of the hadith
Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and asks himمن أتى أربافا فسأله
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and believes in him, his Salat (prayers) will not be acceptedعن شيء فصدقه لم تقبل له صلاة
Riyad as-Salihin 1669
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The Shaykh : No, it does not contain "he believed him." He went to a fortune-teller and asked him. His prayer was not accepted for forty days. However, if he believed him, he has committed disbelief in what was revealed to Muhammad, just as the reward is negated without the establishment of the reward, so it is in the statement "his deeds are nullified," meaning the reward of his deeds, not the validity. If the reward is invalidated in the past, it means he did not fail, but there is a discussion mentioned by Khalid al-Muslih about Ibn al-Qayyim in the book of prayer. Yes. This is the book of prayer by Ibn al-Qayyim, it is famous and available in the collection of hadith. Correct.

The presenter : You are safe.

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed, it does not exclude [anyone], because the statement "whoever abandons the 'Asr prayer" is apparent in its generality. One who never prays, all his deeds are invalidated, all his deeds. This is what the Shaykh mentioned.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 714 - 4600 هل نأخذ بظاهر حديث من ترك صلاة العصر فقد حبط عمله؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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