Volume 7, Book 72, Number 836:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
I never used to leave in the Prophet house anything carrying images or crosses but he obliterated
it.
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Volume 7, Book 72, Number 837:
Narrated Abu Zur’a:
l entered a house in Medina with Abu Huraira, and he saw a man making pictures at the top of
the house. Abu Huraira said, “I heard Allah’s Apostle saying that Allah said, ‘Who would be more un –
just than the one who tries to create the like of My creatures? Let them create a grain: let them create
a gnat.’ “Abu Huraira then asked for a water container and washed his arms up to his armpits. I said,
“0 Abu i Huraira! Is this something you have heard I from Allah’s Apostle?” He said, “The limit for
ablution is up to the place where the ornaments will reach on the Day of Resurrection.’
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 838:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle returned from a journey when I had placed a curtain of mine having pictures over
(the door of) a chamber of mine. When Allah’s Apostle saw it, he tore it and said, “The people who
will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be those who try to make the
like of Allah’s creations.” So we turned it (i.e., the curtain) into one or two cushions.
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 839:
Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet returned from a journey when I had hung a thick curtain having pictures (in front of
a door). He ordered me to remove it and I removed it. Aisha added: The Prophet and I used to take a
bath from one container (of water).
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 840:
Narrated ‘Aisha :
I purchased a cushion with pictures on it. The Prophet (came and) stood at the door but did not
enter. I said (to him), “I repent to Allah for what (the guilt) I have done.” He said, “What is this cush –
ion?” I said, “It is for you to sit on and recline on.” He said, “The makers of these pictures will be pun –
ished on the Day of Resurrection and it will be said to them, ‘Make alive what you have created.’
Moreover, the angels do not enter a house where there are pictures.'”
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 841:
Narrated Abu Talha:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Angels (of mercy) do not enter a house where there are pictures.'” The sub-
narrator Busr added: “Then Zaid fell ill and we paid him a visit. Behold! There was, hanging at his
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door, a curtain decorated with a picture. I said to ‘Ubaidullah Al-Khaulani, the step son of Maimuna,
the wife of the Prophet , “Didn’t Zaid tell us about the picture the day before yesterday?” ‘Ubaidullah
said, “Didn’t you hear him saying: ‘except a design in a garment’?”
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 842:
Narrated Anas:
Aisha had a thick curtain (having pictures on it) and she screened the side of her i house with it.
The Prophet said to her, “Remove it from my sight, for its pictures are still coming to my mind in my
prayers.”
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 843:
Narrated Salim’s father:
Once Gabriel promised to visit the Prophet but he delayed and the Prophet got worried about that.
At last he came out and found Gabriel and complained to him of his grief (for his delay). Gabriel said
to him, “We do not enter a place in which there is a picture or a dog.”