—The painters of animate objects in Islam
–Ibn ‘Umar reported Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) having said:
Those who paint pictures would be punished on the Day of Resurrection and it would be said to them: Breathe soul into what you have created.
Sahih Muslim 2108 a
–It was narrated that An-Nadr bin Anas said:
“I was sitting with Ibn ‘Abbas when a man from among the people of Al-‘Iraq came to him and said: ‘I make these images; what do you say concerning them?’ He said: ‘Come closer, come closer. I heard Muhammad [SAW] say: Whoever makes an image in this world will be commanded on the Day of Resurrection to breathe a soul into it, and he will not be able to do so.”
Sunan an-Nasa’i 5358
–Muslim b. Subaih reported:
I was with Masriuq in the house which had the portrayals of Mary (hadrat Maryan). Thereupon Masriuq said: These are portraits of Kisra. I said: No, these are of Mary. Masruq said: I heard Abdullah b, Mas’ud as saying Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) had said: The most grievously tormented people on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures. (Muslim said): I read this before Nasr b. ‘Ali at-Jahdami and he read it before other narrators, the last one being Ibn Sa’id b Abl at Hasan that a person came to Ibn ‘Abbas and said: I am the person who paints pictures; give me a religious verdict about them. He (Ibn ‘Abbas) said to him: Come near me (still further). He came near him so much so that he placed his hand upon his head and said: I am going to narrate to you what I heard from Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). I heard him say: All the painters who make pictures would be in the fire of Hell. The soul will be breathed in every picture prepared by him and it shall punish him in the Hell, and he (Ibn ‘Abbas) said: If you have to do it at all, then paint the pictures of trees and lifeless things; and Nasr b. ‘Ali confirmed it.
Sahih Muslim 2109 c, 2110 a
–Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:
“Some of the Fire (in the shape of a long neck) will come out of the Fire on the Day of judgment. It will have two eyes which can see, two ears which can hear, and a tongue which can speak. It will say: ‘I have been left in charge of three: Every obstinate oppressor, everyone who called upon a deity besides Allah, and the image makers.”
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2775
–It was narrated that Abu Talhah said:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah [SAW] say: ‘The angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or an image of an animate being.’
Sunan an-Nasa’i 5348
