A'isha reported: Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) visited me when I had screened (my door) with a carpet having pictures on it. He removed it and we made cushions out of that.

A'isha, the wife of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , reported that she had hung a curtain which had pictures upon it. Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) entered (the room) and he pulled it. A'isha said: I then tore it and prepared two cushions out of that. A person who was then in that company and whose name was Rabi'ah bin 'Ata, the freed slave of Banu Zuhra, asked: Did you hear Abu Mabammad making a mention of A'isha having stated that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to recline upon them? ibn al-Qasim said: No, but I heard Qasim bin Muhammad saying so.

A'isha reported that she bought a carpet which had pictures on it. When Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) saw that, he stayed at the door and did not get in. I perceived or I was made to perceive upon his face signs of disgust. She said: Allah's Messenger, I offer repentance to Allah and His Messenger. (but tell me) what is the sin that I have committed. Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: What is this carpet? She said: I bought it for you so that you might sit on it and take rest. Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: The owners of these pictures would be tormented and they would be asked to bring to life what they tried to create. He then said: Angels do not enter the house in which there is a picture.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A'isha through another chain of transmitters also. Some of the other ahadith narrated through other chains of transmitters are more complete and there is an addition in them (transmitted through other chains of transmitters). In the hadith transmitted on the authority of the nephew of Majishun she (A'isha) is reported to have said: I took it and prepared two cushions out of that and he (the Holy Prophet) used to recline against them in the house.

Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) having said: Those who paint pictures would be punished on the Day of Resurrection and it would be said to them: Breathe soul into what you. have created.

Ibn 'Umar reported a hadith like this through another chain of transmitters.

'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Verity the most grievously tormented people on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures. Ashajj (one of the narrators) in the hadith narrated by him did not make mention of the word" verity".

This hadith has been reported on the authority of Abu Mu'awiyahh (RA) through another chain of tranmitters (and the words are):" Verity, the most grievously tormented people amongst the denizens of Hell on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures. The rest of the hadith is the same.

Muslim bin Subaih reported: I was with Masruq in the house which had the portrayals of Mary (hadrat Maryam). Thereupon Masruq said: These are portraits of Kisra. I said: No, these are of Mary. Masruq said: I heard'Abdullah b, Mas'ud as saying Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: The most grievously tormented people on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures.

(Muslim said): I read this before Nasr bin 'Ali at-Jahdami and he read it before other narrators, the last one being Ibn Sa'id b Abl at Hasan that a person came to Ibn 'Abbas and said: I am the person who paints pictures; give me a religious verdict about them. He (Ibn 'Abbas) said to him: Come near me (still further). He came near him so much so that he placed his hand upon his head and said: I am going to narrate to you what I heard from Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) . I heard him say: All the painters who make pictures would be in the fire of Hell. The soul will be breathed in every picture prepared by him and it shall punish him in the Hell, and he (Ibn 'Abbas) said: If you have to do it at all, then paint the pictures of trees and lifeless things; and Nasr bin 'Ali confirmed it.