Does this Hadith mean that one who pecks at his prayer is an infidel?
The aforementioned has a good chain of transmission ( ), and it is supported by what is narrated in Al-Bukhari from Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), that he saw a man who was not completing his bowing (ruku') and prostration (). He said to him: "You have not prayed, and if you were to die, you would die upon a nature other than the nature upon which Allah fashioned Muhammad (peace be upon him)." These narrations are understood by scholars as a deterrent and a warning against not perfecting the pillars of prayer, not as a negation of the reality of prayer or as expelling the doer from Islam; rather, it is a negation of perfection. It is used as evidence for the obligation of tranquility (ṭuma'nīnah) in bowing and prostration, and that failing to observe it invalidates the prayer. The warning here is for emphasis in deterring and rebuking, and not for expulsion from the faith.
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