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.

Anas bin Malik (RA) said: I was sitting with Ibn Ahbas when he gave religious verdicts but he did not say that it was Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) who had said that. However when a man said to him (Ibn 'Abbas): I am the painter of these pictures. Ibn 'Abbas said: I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: He who painted pictures in the world would be compelled to breathe soal in them on the Day of Resurrection, but he would not be able to breathe soul (in them).

Nadr bin Anas reported that a person came to Ibn 'Abbas and he narrated (the above menlioned hadith) from Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) .

Abu Zur'a reported: I visited the house of Marwan in the company of Abu Hurairah (RA) and he found pictures there. whereupon he said: I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Allah, the Glorious and Exalted, said: Who is a more wrongdoer than one who tries to create creation like Mine creation. Let him create an atom or a grain of wheat or that of barley.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Zur'a and he said: Abu Hurairah (RA) went to the house of Sa'ld or Marwan which they had built in Madinah and he (Abu Hurairah (RA)) saw a painter who had been painting pictures in his house, whereupon he told that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said like this, but he made no mention of the words:" Let him create the grain of barley."