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Umdat al-Ahkam (al-Maqdisi) 172عمدة الأحكام 172
عن عائشة رضي الله عنها قال: «لما اشتكى النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - ذكر بعض نسائه كنيسة رأينها بأرض الحبشة، يقال لها: مارية - وكانت أم سلمة وأم حبيبة أتتا أرض الحبشة - فذكرتا من حسنها وتصاوير فيها، فرفع رأسه - صلى الله عليه وسلم - وقال: أولئك إذا مات فيهم الرجل الصالح بنوا على قبره مسجدا، ثم صوروا فيه تلك الصور أولئك شرار الخلق عند الله».
Narrated `Aisha: When the Prophet (ﷺ) became ill, some of his wives talked about a church which they had seen in Ethiopia and it was called Mariya. Um Salma and Um Habiba had been to Ethiopia, and both of them narrated its (the Church's) beauty and the pictures it contained. The Prophet (ﷺ) raised his head and said, "Those are the people who, whenever a pious man dies amongst them, make a place of worship at his grave and then they make those pictures in it. Those are the worst creatures in the Sight of Allah."
Grading
Its text is in Sahih al-Bukhari
Chain of narrators
عائشة بنت أبي بكر الصديق
`Aisha