apparent. The text of the hadith, without the story, was narrated by Malik in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (1/240/49), and from him by al-Nasaʾi (1/292), Ibn Majah (4271), Ahmad (3/455), and Abu Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (9/156), all of them from Malik, from al-Zuhri, through the same chain, with similar wording. Salih and Yunus also followed him, from Ibn Shihab. Ahmad narrated it (3/455). Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah also followed him. Ahmad (6/386) and al-Tirmidhi (1/309) narrated it, and he said: “A good, authentic hadith.” Al-Layth ibn Saʿd also followed him; Ibn Hibban narrated it in his Sahih (734). All of them said, “the Muslim” or “the believer,” except Sufyan, who said, “the martyrs.” His narration is therefore anomalous. And Allah knows best.
- “May Allah destroy a people who make images of what they do not create.”
Al-Ḍiyaʾ narrated it in al-Mukhtārah (1/434) through al-Ṭayalisi, who recorded it in al-Musnad (623): Ibn Abi Dhiʾb narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mihran, who said: Umayr, the freedman of Ibn ʿAbbas, narrated to me from Usamah ibn Zayd, who said:
“I entered upon the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in the Kaʿbah, and he saw some images. He called for a bucket of water, so I brought it to him, and he began wiping them away, saying”—then he cited it.
Then—