Ways of The Prophet (S.A.W)

PICTURES

Hadrat Aishah (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anha) narrated that the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) went out on an expedition and I got a pictured cloth which I hung as a screen at the door, but when he came and saw it, he pulled it and tore it down, saying, “ALLAH has not commanded us to clothe stones and clay.” [Bukhari, Muslim]

Hadrat Said bin Abul Hasan narrated when I was with lbn Abbas (Radi Allahu Ta’ala’anhu) a man came to him and said, Ibn-e-Abbas, I am a man whose livelihood comes only from the work of my hands, and I make representations of things. lbn-e- Abbas replied that he would tell him only what he had heard from ALLAH’s Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa sallam). He had heard him say, “if any one makes representations of any thing ALLAH will punish him till he blows a spirit into it, and he will never be able to do that.” Then when the man gasped and became pale he said to him, If you must do so, make representation of these trees and of any thing which does not possess a spirit.” [Bukhari]

Hadrat lbn Abbas (RadiAllahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated ALLAH’s Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) as saying, ‘The one who receives the severest punishment on the day of resurrection will be he who fights a battle against the Prophet or against who a Prophet fights, or who kills his parents, those who make representations of things, and a learned man who does not benefit from his learning.” [Mishkat]

Hadrat Abu Hurairah (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated ALLAH’s Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) told that Jibril came to him and, said. “I came to you last night and was prevented from entering simply by the fact that there were images at the door”, for there was a figured curtain with images on it and there was a dog in the house. So he advised that the head of image which is at the door of the house be cut so that it may become like the form of a tree; and that the curtain be cut up and made into cussions and the dog be expelled from the house.” ALLAH’s Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) then did so [Mishkat, Tirmizi, Abu Dawud]

Hadrat Abu Talha (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) as saying, “The angels do not enter a house which contains a dog or pictures.”

Hadrat Abu Hurairah, (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated that ALLAH’s Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said, “If anyone gets a dog, except a sheep-dog or a hunting dog or a farm dog, a qirat of his reward will be deducted daily.” [Bukhari, Muslim]