An image found on a phone that its owner did not take
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
You mentioned beautiful words about images, but if I find an image of Shaykh al-Sa'di (may Allah have mercy on him) on my phone that I did not take myself, what is the ruling regarding it, since I did not take it myself?
The Shaykh:
You must delete it. You must delete the picture and remove it from your mobile phone. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
Musnad Ahmad 1239Sahih because of corroborating evidence; this is a Da'if isnad] (Darussalam) If you are able to wipe it and remove it, it is obligatory for you to do so.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
You mentioned beautiful words about images, but if I find an image of Shaykh al-Sa'di (may Allah have mercy on him) on my phone that I did not take myself, what is the ruling regarding it, since I did not take it myself?
The Shaykh:
You must delete it. You must delete the picture and remove it from your mobile phone. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
It was narrated from Hanash Abul-Mu`tamir that ‘Ali (رضي الله عنه) sent his chief of police on a mission and said: I am sending you on a mission as the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent me: Do not leave any grave without levelling it or any statue without knocking it down.
الله عليه وسلم لا تدع صورة إلا طمستهاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/103 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (21:58)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.