118 — (The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The angels do not enter a house containing statues (or images).” Agreed upon; this wording is Muslim’s.) p. 97
Authentic. I have not found it with this wording in Muslim or elsewhere. The closest wording in Muslim (6/162) is the hadith of Abū Hurayra, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The angels do not enter a house containing statues or images.” An even closer version was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (2/132) through Rāfi ibn Ishāq, who said:
“Abd Allah ibn Abī Talha and I went in to visit Abū Saīd al-Khudrī during his illness. Abū Saīd said: ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, informed us’—and he related it in wording like that of the book, except that he said: ‘... or an image.’ Ishāq was uncertain and did not know which expression he had used.”
Al-Tirmidhī said: “A sound and authentic hadith.” Ibn Hibbān also authenticated it (1486). Ibn Mājah (3650) narrated it from Alī as a report traced back to the Prophet, with the wording: “containing a dog or an image.”
As for al-Bukhārī, he included hadiths conveying the same meaning. One is the hadith of Sālim from his father (Ibn Umar), who said: Gabriel had promised the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and then said: “We do not enter a house containing an image or a dog.” Al-Bukhārī narrated it in his Sahīh (2/311). Another is the hadith of Ibn Abbās, from Abū Talha, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “The angels do not enter a house containing a dog or an image.” He narrated it (2/329, 3/65), as did Ibn Mājah. At the second location, al-Bukhārī added: “Meaning representations of animate beings.” Muslim and others narrated it through another route from Abū Talha, and it will appear later in the book (133).
(Note) These hadiths, as well as others conveying the same meaning that will appear later in the book, encompass both three-dimensional and non-three-dimensional images. The compiler restricted them solely to three-dimensional images, which is surprising on his part, for he knows—as I believe—that the circumstances which occasioned them in fact involved non-three-dimensional images,