Volume 1, Book 8, Number 426:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Um Salama told Allah’s Apostle about a church which she had seen in Ethiopia and which was
called Mariya. She told him about the pictures which she had seen in it. Allah’s Apostle said, “If any
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righteous pious man dies amongst them, they would build a place of worship at his grave and make
these pictures in it; they are the worst creatures in the sight of Allah.”