وَأَهْلُ الْكَبَائِرِ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَا يُخَلَّدُونَ فِي النَّارِ
Believers who commit major sins do not remain eternally in Hell.
This question is connected to intercession but rests on more than intercession alone. If someone dies in faith yet has unrepented major sins, and Allah punishes that person, must the punishment be everlasting?
The Sunni position allows punishment but denies that the eternal abode of unbelievers applies to such believers. Muʿtazilī reasoning affirms their everlasting punishment while differing from those who explicitly label them unbelievers.