It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umayr bin Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) - who was a Companion - that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said during the Farewell Pilgrimage: "Behold! The friends of Allah are those who pray: those who establish the five prayers that have been made obligatory upon them, fast Ramadan and seek its reward, regarding it as a duty upon them, give the zakah of their wealth gladly, and avoid the major sins which Allah has forbidden." Then a man asked him (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah! What are the major sins? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They are nine: associating partners with Allah, killing a believer unjustly, fleeing from the battlefield on the day of the advance, consuming the wealth of the orphan, consuming usury (riba), slandering a chaste woman, disobeying Muslim parents, and treating as lawful (the violation of) the Sacred House, which is your qiblah in life and in death." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever dies without having committed these major sins, and establishes the prayer and gives the zakah, will be with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in a house whose doors are made of gold." The two Shaykhs used as evidence all the narrators of this hadith except Abd al-Hamid bin Sinan. As for Umayr bin Qatadah, he is a Companion, and there is agreement on recording and using as evidence the narrations of his son Ubayd.