The Shaykh : The third hadith states: And from Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan, who said: A man came to Ibn 'Abbas - may Allah be pleased with them both
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The Shaykh : The third hadith states: And from Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan, who said: A man came to Ibn 'Abbas - may Allah be pleased with them both - and said: I am a man who makes these images, so give me a ruling on them. He said to him: Come closer to me. So he came closer. Then he said: Come closer to me. So he came closer, until he placed his hand on his head and said: I will inform you of what I heard from the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him. I heard the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him - say: Mishkat al-Masabih 4498. Ibn 'Abbas said: If you must do it, then make trees and things that have no breath. It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
In a narration by al-Bukhari, he said: I was with Ibn 'Abbas when a man came to him and said: O Ibn 'Abbas, I am a man whose livelihood is from the work of my hands, and I make these images? Ibn 'Abbas said: I will not tell you anything but what I heard from the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him. I heard him say: Whoever makes an image, Allah will punish him until he breathes life into it, and he will never be able to do so. The man became severely agitated, so he said: O wretched man! If you refuse to do anything but make them, then make this tree and everything that has no spirit.
The author says: A person becomes agitated when he swells with anger or arrogance.
This means that when that man heard what Ibn 'Abbas narrated regarding the severe warning for whoever makes such images, like that questioner, this questioner became extremely angry and greatly irritated by the severe warning he heard. So Ibn 'Abbas found an exit and a way out for him; because, as you heard, he said that his livelihood is from making those images and statues. So when he clarified to him the prohibition of that, he became agitated with that agitation and was greatly irritated. So he said to him: If you must make them - meaning: if you must draw them - then draw trees and everything that has no spirit or soul.
From this hadith, the scholars derived the distinction between drawing animals and drawing inanimate objects, so they forbade the first and permitted the second.
Everyone who makes representations of things will go to hell, and for every representation he has made there will be produced a soul which will punish him in jahannam.
كلُّ مُصَوِّرٍ في النارِ ، يُجعَلُ لَه بِكلِّ صورَةٍ صوَّرَها نَفسًا فيُعذِّبه في جَهنَّمَIn a narration by al-Bukhari, he said: I was with Ibn 'Abbas when a man came to him and said: O Ibn 'Abbas, I am a man whose livelihood is from the work of my hands, and I make these images? Ibn 'Abbas said: I will not tell you anything but what I heard from the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him. I heard him say: Whoever makes an image, Allah will punish him until he breathes life into it, and he will never be able to do so. The man became severely agitated, so he said: O wretched man! If you refuse to do anything but make them, then make this tree and everything that has no spirit.
The author says: A person becomes agitated when he swells with anger or arrogance.
This means that when that man heard what Ibn 'Abbas narrated regarding the severe warning for whoever makes such images, like that questioner, this questioner became extremely angry and greatly irritated by the severe warning he heard. So Ibn 'Abbas found an exit and a way out for him; because, as you heard, he said that his livelihood is from making those images and statues. So when he clarified to him the prohibition of that, he became agitated with that agitation and was greatly irritated. So he said to him: If you must make them - meaning: if you must draw them - then draw trees and everything that has no spirit or soul.
From this hadith, the scholars derived the distinction between drawing animals and drawing inanimate objects, so they forbade the first and permitted the second.
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