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A Hadith Regarding Pictures
Hello there,
My question is assalamualaikum
In a hadith it is said that
Sahih al-Bukhari 3351
Narrated Ibn
Abbas:The Prophet (peace be upon him) entered the Ka
ba and found in it the pictures of (Prophet) Abraham and Mary. On that he said’ “What is the matter with them (ie Quraish)? They have already heard that angels do not enter a house in which there are pictures; yet this is the picture of Abraham. And why is he depicted as practicing divination by arrows?https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3351
We know that the prohibition from making pictures that was from Prophet is only stated in Ahadith. And thus it cannot be said that it is independent total prohibition of pictures itself, because if it was, then prophet would have propagated it in a way that it would have reached the level of Ijma and tawattur, as a separate injuction. So if the prohibition was in ijma and tawattur, then we could say that an independent injuction may exist.
And as i think ghamidi sahab interpreted the hadith about the topic that angels do not enter a house with pictures, and related it this way that since prohibition of shirk is from Quran (Ijma and tawattur level) and mostly pictures were of for purposes of shirk, which associated these pictures with moral impurity and it was the angels’ sensitivity that made them not enter house. So i guess he concluded that neither the making of picture is independently a sin, and neither is putting up or having pictures in house is an independent sin.
Now the question is that, when looking at this hadith, we come to know that the people of quraish already knew (because of being the nation of previous prophet) that angels do not come at such house, so if i try to relate that what if because quraish already knew the concept that the angels do not enter such place, this concept was already widespread and hence possibly reached ijma and tawattur, hence prophet did not himself made arrangements for spreading it to that level of Ijma and tawattur. And hence maybe possibly an independent injuction of it being sin to place images in house, may exist. Is it possible?
Can you explain if I’m wrong? And of it isn’t to an ijma and tawattur level? And i mean what would have been the circumstances which would have made it to that level?
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