Abu Talha reported: I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Angels do not enter the house in which there is a dog or a statue.

Abu Talha reported: I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Angels do not enter the house in which there is a dog or a statue.

This hadith has been reported on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters.

Abu Talha, the Companion of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) having said: Verily, angels do not enter the house in which there is a picture. Busr reported: Zaid fell ill and we went to inquire after his health and (found) that there was hanging at his door a curtain with a picture on it. I said to 'Ubaidullah Khaulani who had been under the patronage of Maimuna, the wife of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ): Did not Zaid himself inform us before about (the Holy Prophet's command pertaining to the pictures), whereupon 'Ubaidullah said: Did you not hear when he said:" Except the prints on the cloth"?

Abu Talha reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Angels do not enter a house in which there is a picture. Busr said: Zaid bin Khalid fell sick and we visited him to inquire after his health. As we were in his house (we saw) a curtain having pictures on it. I said to 'Ubaidullah Khaulani: Did he not narrate to us (the Holy Prophet's command pertaining to pictures)? Thereupon he said: He in fact did that (but he also said): Except the prints upon the cloth. Did you not hear this? I said: No, whereupon He said: He had in fact made a mention of this.

Abu Talha Ansari reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Angels do not enter the house in which there is a picture or portraits. I came to 'A'isha and said to her: This is a news that I have received that Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: Angels do not enter the house in which there is a picture or a dog, (and further added) whether she had heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) making a mention of it. She said: No (I did not hear this myself), but I narrate to you what I saw him doing. I bear testimony to the fact that he (the Holy Prophet) set out for an expedition. I took a carpet and screened the door with it. When he (the Holy Prophet) came back he saw that carpet and I perceived signs of disapproval on his face. He pulled it until it was torn or it was cut (into pieces) and he said: God has not commanded us to clothe stones and clay. We cut it (the curtain) and prepared two pillowa out of it by stuffing them with the fibre of date-palms and he (the Holy Prophet) did not find fault with it.

A'isha reported: We had a curtain with us which had portraits of birds upon it. Whenever a visitor came, he found them in front of him. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upop him) said to me: Change them, for whenever I enter the room) I see them and it brings to my mind (the pleasures) of worldly life. She said: We had with us a sheet which had silk badges upon it and we used to wear it.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Ibn Muthanna but with this addition: 'Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) did not command us to tear that."

A'isha reported: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came back from the journey and I had screened my door with a curtain having portraits of winged horses upon it. He commanded me and I pulled it away.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Waki' with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.