1752 — Muhammad ibn Ahmad informed us. Uthman ibn Ahmad informed us. He said: Hanbal narrated to us. He said: I heard Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ja‘far in Basra, in the year twenty-one, say ⦗1035⦘:

“Faith is speech and action, accompanied by adherence to the sunnah, correctness, and intention. Faith increases and decreases. The believers most complete in faith are those best in character. Abandoning the prayer is disbelief. No deed whose abandonment constitutes disbelief exists except the prayer: whoever abandons it is a disbeliever, and his killing becomes lawful.”