1027 - 'Ubayd Allah ibn Hanbal informed me, saying: My father, Hanbal ibn Ishaq ibn Hanbal, narrated to me, saying: Al-Humaydi said: I was informed that some people say: "Whoever affirms the prayer, the zakah, the fast, and the pilgrimage, but does not perform any of that until he dies, or prays while leaning his back against something with his back to the qiblah until he dies, he is a believer, as long as he is not a denier, provided he knows that his abandoning that is [part of] his faith as long as he affirms the obligations and the facing of the qiblah." I said: "This is clear disbelief in Allah, and a contradiction of the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), and the practice of the Muslims." Allah—Exalted and Majestic is He—says: {...being upright, and establish the prayer, and give the zakah, and that is the upright religion} [al-Bayyinah: 5]. Hanbal said: Abu 'Abd Allah said—or I heard him say: "Whoever says this has disbelieved in Allah, rejected the command of Allah, and rejected what the Messenger brought."