What is your opinion of the one who says: “Abdullah, the father of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), is not a disbeliever,” and cites as evidence…

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: What is your opinion of the one who says that Abdullah, the father of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), is not a disbeliever, and cites as evidence that His saying, “My father and your father are in the Fire,” was a way of comforting that man’s heart? And may Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Comforting a man’s heart by ruling that a person is in the Fire—does that comfort him? No, this is a report from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and a removal of the distress that had occurred in his heart. So everyone who dies upon disbelief, everyone who dies upon disbelief, is in the Fire. Is Abraham, the friend of Allah, not in the Fire? Is Abraham, the friend of Allah, not in the Fire? Is Noah’s son not in the Fire? Is Noah’s son not in the Fire?
So the matter concerns a person’s deed, not his lineage, not his lineage or his ancestry. The matter concerns the person’s own deed. So whoever dies upon disbelief is among the people of the Fire, and whoever dies upon faith is among the people of Paradise. Yes. May Allah reward you. Your Eminence the Shaykh. Abu Lahab is in the Fire by the explicit text of the Qur’an, even though he was the uncle of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The matter is not about lineage. The matter is about the deed. Yes.