righteous deeds are part of faith, and it is permissible to make exceptions in it; contrary to the Murjiʾah, yet he accused me more than once of being Murjiʾah! In doing so, he overturned the advice of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Follow up a bad deed with a good one, it will erase it.. "! So I said: how similar today is to yesterday! A man once said to Ibn al-Mubārak: "What do you say about someone who commits adultery and drinks alcohol; is he a believer?" He said: I do not expel him from faith. The man said: At your old age, you have become Murjiʾah! Ibn al-Mubārak replied: The Murjiʾah do not accept me! I say: faith increases and decreases. And the Murjiʾah do not say that. The Murjiʾah say: Our good deeds are accepted. And I do not know if any good deed of mine has been accepted? And how much you need to take a board and sit with the scholars." Narrated by Ibn Rāhawayh in "Musnad" (3/670-671). I said: The similarity between the two unjust accusations is the association in speech with the Murjiʾah in some of what they say; I, by saying that I do not declare the one who neglects prayer out of laziness as a disbeliever; and Ibn al-Mubārak in not declaring the one who commits a major sin as a disbeliever. And if I wanted to reciprocate, I would accuse him of being a Khārijite; because the Khārijites declare as disbelievers those who neglect prayer and the rest of the four pillars! And (I seek refuge with Allāh from being among the ignorant). *

- (Indeed, a people will emerge from the Fire; they will be burned in it except for the marks of their faces, until they enter Paradise). Narrated by Aḥmad (3/355): Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī told us: Qays ibn Sulaym al-ʿAnbarī told us, Yazīd al-Faqīr told me: Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said... and he mentioned it. And from this route, it was narrated by Muslim (1/122-123); and Abū ʿAwānah (1/180); and it includes a story