Explanation of the Third Hadith, which is (from Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan, who said: A man came to Ibn Abbas and said, "I am a man who draws these images, so give me a ruling on them.")

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 him) and said, 'I am a man who draws these images, so give me a ruling on them.' He said to him, 'Come closer to me.' He came closer, then he said, 'Come closer to me.' He came closer until he placed his hand on his head and said, 'I will tell you 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:

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.

كل مصور في النار يجعل له بكل صورة صورها نفسا فيعذبه في جهنم

Mishkat al-Masabih 4498

Ibn Abbas said, 'If you must do it, then make trees and things that have no soul.'" It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim. And 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 craft of my hands, and I make these images.' Ibn Abbas said, 'I will not tell you anything except what I heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I heard him say:

Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah till he puts life in it, and he will never be able to put life in it.

من صور صورة فإن الله معذبه حتى ينفخ فيها الروح و ليس بنافخ و ليس بنافخ فيها أبدا

Sahih al-Bukhari 2225

The man became very angry. He said, 'Woe to you! If you are going to do anything, then stick to this tree and everything that has no spirit.'" The author says: When a person becomes swollen with anger or pride, it means that when that man heard what Ibn Abbas narrated regarding the severe warning for those who draw such images, like that questioner, this questioner became very angry and greatly irritated by the severe warning he heard. So Ibn Abbas provided him with an outlet and a relief, 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 angry with that anger and was greatly irritated. So he said to him, "If you must make, that is, draw, 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.
The fourth hadith: And from Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
The fifth: From Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim. And from Hayyan ibn Husayn, who said: "Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me, 'Shall I not send you with what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me with? Do not leave any image except that you erase it, and do not leave any raised grave except that you level it.'" It was narrated by Muslim, Abu Dawud, and al-Tirmidhi ... It was narrated by al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah. And in a narration by Muslim: The difference between the narration of Muslim and the narration of the two Shaykhs is in the wording "image" and "statues." We mentioned in the previous lesson what we can understand from the fact that the disagreement between the two narrations, between the narration of "image" and the narration of "statues," is merely a verbal disagreement, because every image linguistically is a statue, and every statue is an image, contrary to what is common in the current custom that a statue is specific to three-dimensional images. So this is how the custom has proceeded in restricting the term "statue" to the three-dimensional image. But linguistically, there is no difference between a statue and an image. Whether the image is three-dimensional or not, it is an image and it is a statue; there is no difference between the two terms at all. So the narration of the two Shaykhs: does not differ from the narration of Muslim which contains "dog or statues."