Many. From 'Ubadah ibn al-Samit, that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "There are five prayers that Allah has prescribed upon the servant during the day and night. Whoever performs them, without neglecting any part of them out of disregard for their status, has a covenant with Allah that He will admit him into Paradise. And whoever does not perform them, has no covenant with Allah; if He wills, He will punish him, and if He wills, He will admit him into Paradise." (24) If he were a disbeliever, He would not have placed him under the scope of [Divine] Will. Al-Khallal said in his "Jami'": Yahya narrated to us, 'Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us, Hisham ibn Hassan narrated to us, from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, from Abu Shumaylah, that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went out to Quba' and was met by a group of the Ansar carrying a funeral [bier] on a door. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: "What is this?" They said: "A slave belonging to such-and-such family, such-and-such was his condition." He said: "Did he bear witness that there is no god but Allah?" They said: "Yes, but he used to do such and such [sins]." He said to them (25): "Did he not pray?" They said: "He would pray sometimes and omit it at others." He said to them: "Go back with him, wash him, shroud him, pray over him, and bury him, for by the One in Whose hand is my soul, the angels almost intervened between me and him." He also narrated with his chain of transmission from 'Ata', from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Pray over whoever says there is no god but Allah." (26) This is because this is the consensus of the Muslims; for we do not know of any era in which someone who abandoned prayer was denied washing, funeral prayer, and burial in the Muslim cemeteries, nor were his heirs prevented from inheriting from him, nor was he prevented from inheriting from his deceased, nor were spouses separated due to one of them abandoning prayer; [despite the large number of] (28) those who abandoned prayer. If he were a disbeliever, all of these rulings would have been established, and we know of no disagreement among the Muslims that it is obligatory for the one who abandons prayer to make it up (qada'), whereas if he were an apostate, it would not
(24) Its documentation preceded in 2/7. (25) Omitted from: A, M. (26) Documented by al-Daraqutni, in: Chapter of the description of those with whom prayer is permitted and over whom funeral prayer is performed, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan al-Daraqutni, 2/56. (27) In A, M: "with". (28) In A: "many". And in M: "because of the many".