Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The most severely punished people on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers."

The Shaykh : The fourth hadith: 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 , 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 , 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 the same mission with which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me? "Do not leave any image without erasing it, and do not leave any raised grave without leveling it", narrated by Muslim, Abu Dawud, and al-Tirmidhi. The seventh hadith: From Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said , 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" versus "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 and the narration of , is merely a verbal difference. This is because, linguistically, every image is a statue, and every statue is an image, contrary to what is common in current custom, which holds that a statue is specific to three-dimensional images; these are statues. This is how custom has restricted the term "statue" to three-dimensional images. However, in language, 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 absolutely no difference between the two terms. According to the narration of the two Shaykhs, , it does not differ from the narration of Muslim which contains .