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I was not commanded to build high mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly adorn them as the Jews and Christians did.  

أبو داود:٤٤٨ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ بْنِ سُفْيَانَ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي فَزَارَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الأَصَمِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَا أُمِرْتُ بِتَشْيِيدِ الْمَسَاجِدِ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ لَتُزَخْرِفُنَّهَا كَمَا زَخْرَفَتِ الْيَهُودُ وَالنَّصَارَى  

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bayhaqi:4298 – [Chain 1] Abū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr > Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣaffār > Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Mihrān b. Khālid al-Aṣbahānī > ʿAlī b. Qādim > Sufyān al-Thawrī [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Bakr > Abū Dāwud > Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ b. Sufyān > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Sufyān al-Thawrī > Abū Fazārah > Yazīd al-Aṣam > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "I was not commanded to build the mosque." Ibn Abbas said, "You should adorn it as the Jews and Christians adorned their places of worship." This is the wording of the hadith of Ar-Ruzdibari, and in the narration of Abu Sa'eed it mentioned the mosques but did not mention the Christians.  

البيهقي:٤٢٩٨ – أنبأ أَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو أنبأ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ قَادِمٍ ثنا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ (ح) وَأنبأ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ أنبأ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ بْنِ سُفْيَانَ أنبأ سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي فَزَارَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ الْأَصَمِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَا أُمِرْتُ بِتَشْيِيدِ الْمَسْجِدِ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ لَتُزَخْرِفُنَّهَا كَمَا زَخْرَفَتِ الْيَهُودُ وَالنَّصَارَى لَفْظُ حَدِيثِ الرُّوذَبَارِيِّ وَفِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَسَاجِدَ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرِ النَّصَارَى