2- On her authority she said: I stuffed a cushion for the Prophet ﷺ that had images on it, looking like an ornate pillow. He stood between the two doorways, and his face began to change. I said, “What is the matter with us, O Messenger of Allah? I repent to Allah for whatever sin I have committed.” He replied, “What is it with this cushion?” She continued, “I said, ‘It is a cushion I made for you to recline on.’” He said, “Do you not know that the angels do not enter a house containing an image, and that those who fashion such images will be tormented on the Day of Resurrection, when it will be said to them: ‘Bring to life what you have created’?” In another wording: “The owners of these images will be punished on the Day of Resurrection.” She said: “He did not enter until I removed it.” 1.
“reclining on one of them, and it had a picture on it.” The cut ran straight through the middle of the cloth, so the image’s shape was effectively destroyed. In this way al-Hafiz harmonized the two reports with the narration about the small cushion cited earlier under Issue 33 (pp. 162–163); consult it there.
I later found supporting evidence in Abu Hurayrah’s version of the forthcoming hadith of Jibril, where he told the Prophet ﷺ: “Inside the house there is a wall-hanging with figures on it; cut off their heads, turn the material into floor-covers or cushions, and tread on it, for we do not enter a house that contains figures.” Its transmitters are the same reliable narrators found in the Sahih collections, as I have shown in Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah.
(1) Reported by al-Bukhari 2/11 and 4/105, and by Abu Bakr.