Yahya ibn Yahya al-Tamimi and Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, both from Jarir. Yahya said: Jarir informed us, from al-A'mash, from Abu Sufyan, who said: I heard Jabir say: I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "Indeed, between a man and shirk (polytheism) and kufr (disbelief) is the abandonment of the prayer."