Volume 2, Book 23, Number 425:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
When the Prophet became ill, some of his wives talked about a church which they had seen in
Ethiopia and it was called Mariya. Um Salma and Um Habiba had been to Ethiopia, and both of them
narrated its (the Church’s) beauty and the pictures it contained. The Prophet raised his head and
said, “Those are the people who, whenever a pious man dies amongst them, make a place of worship
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at his grave and then they make those pictures in it. Those are the worst creatures in the Sight of Al –
lah.”