as indicated by the hadith of ʿUbādah ibn al-Sāmit, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “Allah has prescribed five prayers for His servants. Whoever performs them without neglecting any of their due out of disregard for them has a covenant with Allah that He will admit him to Paradise. Whoever does not perform them will come with no covenant from Allah: if He wills, He will punish him, and if He wills, He will admit him to Paradise” (1).
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “As for someone who persists in abandoning prayer, never praying at all, and dies persisting in this abandonment, such a person is not a Muslim. Most people, however, pray at times and abandon prayer at other times. These people do not consistently observe their prayers and are subject to the warning of punishment. They are the ones referred to in the hadith of ʿUbādah ibn al-Sāmit recorded in the Sunan collections—he then cited the hadith. The person who consistently observes the prayers is the one who performs them at their appointed times, as Allah Most High has commanded. As for someone who (2) sometimes delays them beyond their appointed times or neglects their obligatory requirements, his fate is subject to the will of Allah Most High,