It was also transmitted in nearly the same wording by Ibn Wahb, from Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, from Yazīd.

I read this before Abū al-Faḍl ibn Tāj al-Umannāʾ, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz, who reported that Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Harawī informed him, saying:

“Muhallam ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḍabbī narrated to us; Abū Saʿīd Khalīl ibn Aḥmad the judge narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Sarrāj narrated to us; Abū Rajāʾ Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd al-Thaqafī (1) narrated to us; Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us, from Abū al-Aswad, from a man, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet ﷺ said:

‘Allah says: Who is more unjust than one who fashions My likeness or seeks to imitate it? Let them, then, create a single grain or even an atom!’

This ḥadīth is extremely singular (2), and it also contains an unidentified narrator.

Using the same chain Qutaybah said: Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us, from Abū al-Aswad, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, that the Prophet ﷺ said:

‘Offer some of your prayers in your houses and do not turn them into graves, as the Jews and the Christians turned their houses into graves. Indeed, a house in which the Qur’an is recited is seen by the dwellers of heaven as the stars are seen by the people of earth.’

This report has a spotless chain and an excellent text; it contains a prohibition against burying the dead inside houses (3) and is corroborated by another line of transmission.

The Prophet ﷺ has also forbidden building over—