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Is the Hadith: "Whoever abandons prayer without a valid excuse will remain in Hell for eighty huqbahs, and a huqbah is eighty years, and a year is eighty months, and a month is eighty days, and a day is eighty hours, and an hour is eighty thousand years of what you count" authentic?

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This report has no basis, but the threat of punishment for neglecting prayer is established in Islam, as in His (Allah's) saying: (There succeeded them a generation who neglected prayers and pursued desires; so they are going to meet evil - Ghaia) and His saying: (So woe to those who pray, [but] who are heedless of their prayer). The preponderant opinion regarding one who intentionally abandons prayer is that he is a disbeliever and his destiny is the Fire.

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