The Second Aspect:

8460 - My father told us, Abu Salih, the scribe of al-Layth, told us, Mu'awiyah ibn Salih told me, from 'Ali ibn Abi Talhah, from Ibn 'Abbas: regarding His saying: "Indeed, those who deny Our verses and are arrogant toward them - the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them," he means: Nothing of their deeds ascends to God.

8461 - Muhammad ibn Sa'd al-'Awfi informed me in what he wrote to me, my father told me, my paternal uncle told me, from his father, from his father, from Ibn 'Abbas: regarding His saying: "Indeed, those who deny Our verses and are arrogant toward them - the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them," they will not be opened for them for any good they perform.

8462 - My father told us, Qabisah told us, Sufyan told us, from Layth, from 'Ata', from Ibn 'Abbas: "the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them," he said: They will not be opened for them for any deed nor any supplication. Something similar was narrated from Ibrahim al-Nakha'i and Mujahid.

8463 - Ahmad ibn 'Uthman ibn Hakim informed me in what he wrote to me, Ahmad ibn Mufaddal told us, Asbat told us, from al-Suddi: regarding His saying: "the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them," he said: When the angels take the soul of the disbeliever, the angels of the earth strike him until he rises to the Heaven. When he reaches the Heaven, the angels of the Heaven strike him and he descends. Then the angels of the earth strike him and he rises, then the angels of the lowest Heaven strike him and he descends to the lowest depths of the earth.

8464 - My father told us, 'Isam ibn Rawwad told us, my father told us, Sa'id ibn Bashir told us, from Qatadah, regarding the saying of God: "the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them," he says: They have no righteous deed that would open the gates of Heaven for them.

His saying, the Almighty: "Nor will they enter Paradise."

8465 - al-Hasan ibn 'Ali ibn 'Affan informed us in what he wrote to us, Ibn Numayr reported to us, from al-A'mash, from al-Minhal, from Zadhan Abu 'Umar, he said: I heard al-Bara' ibn 'Azib say: We went out with the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) for the funeral of a man from the Ansar. He sat, and we sat with him, then he said: "Indeed, the disbeliever, when he is in a state of departing from the world and approaching the Hereafter, the Angel of Death comes and sits...