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Reader: Here is a story in relation to the Jahmiyaah, which al-Khatib al-Baghdadi narrated in his Taareekh Baghdaad on the sixty sixth page of the seventh volume, under the biography of Bishr al-Mirisee the Jahmee. He narrated, “When Bishr al-Mirisee died, no one from the people of knowledge or the Sunnah attended his funeral prayer except Ubayd ash-Shounizee. So when he returned from the funeral of al-Mirisee the people of Sunnah confronted him. They said, O’ enemy of Allaah! You claim to be a person of Sunnah and Jamaa’ah while you attend the funeral of al-Mirisee?” He replied, “Give me respite until that I can inform you [of my excuse]. I did not attend his funeral prayer hoping for the reward that is gained for attending the funeral prayer. When he was placed in his grave I stood in the line and I said, “O Allaah! This servant of yours did not believe in seeing you in the hereafter, so – O’ Allaah block him from seeing your face on the day when the believers will see it. O Allaah! This servant of yours did not believe in the punishment of the grave, so – O’Allaah,* punish him today in [...]

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