And in the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections it is reported that, five nights before his passing, he said: “Those who lived before you used to turn graves into places of worship. Beware—do not turn graves into places of worship; I forbid you to do so.”

On another occasion, when the church in Abyssinia was mentioned to him—with praise for its elegance and the images it contained—he said: “Whenever a righteous man among them died, they would build a place of worship over his grave and made those images. Such people are the worst of all creatures in the sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection.”