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nasai:5364 – [Chain 1] Aḥmad b. Ḥarb > Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Aʿmash > Muslim [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Muḥammad > Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ > Ismāʿīl b. Zakariyyā > Ḥuṣayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Muslim b. Ṣubayḥ > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh

"The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Among the people who will be most severely punished on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers.'"  

النسائي:٥٣٦٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ ح وَأَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حُصَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ صُبَيْحٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ مِنْ أَشَدِّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ الْمُصَوِّرِينَ  

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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Aḥmad, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
bukhari:5950 – al-Ḥumaydī > Sufyān > al-Aʿmash > Muslim

We were with Masruq at the house of Yasar bin Numair. Masruq saw pictures on his terrace and said, "I heard ʿAbdullah saying that he heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "The people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah will be the picture makers.'"  

البخاري:٥٩٥٠ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ كُنَّا مَعَ مَسْرُوقٍ فِي دَارِ يَسَارِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ فَرَأَى فِي صُفَّتِهِ تَمَاثِيلَ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ  

muslim:2109a – [Chain 1] ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > Jarīr > al-Aʿmash [Chain 2] Abū Saʿīd al-Ashaj > Wakīʿ > al-Aʿmash > Abū al-Ḍuḥá > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh

Verity the most grievously tormented people on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures. Ashajj (one of the narrators) in the hadith narrated by him did not make mention of the word" verity".  

مسلم:٢١٠٩a – حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ ح وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الأَشَجُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرِ الأَشَجُّ إِنَّ  

ahmad:4050 – Abū Muʿāwiyah And Wakīʿ > al-Aʿmash > Muslim b. Ṣubayḥ > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh

"The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Among the people who will be most severely punished on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5364)   

أحمد:٤٠٥٠ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ وَوَكِيعٌ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ صُبَيْحٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِنَّ مِنْ أَشَدِّ أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرِينَ وَقَالَ وَكِيعٌ أَشَدِّ النَّاسِ  

ahmad:4792 – Wakīʿ > Sufyān > ʿĀṣim b. ʿUbaydullāh > Sālim from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be for the image-makers, and it will be said to them, 'Give life to what you have created.'"  

أحمد:٤٧٩٢ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَشَدُّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ يُقَالُ لَهُمْ أَحْيُوا مَا خَلَقْتُمْ  

tabarani:10306 – al-Ḥasan b. ʿAllūyah al-Qaṭṭān > ʿAbbād b. Mūsá al-Khutullī > Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar > Ḥabīb b. Ḥassān > Abū al-Ḍuḥá > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "The most severe of people in punishment on the Day of Resurrection are the image-makers."  

الطبراني:١٠٣٠٦ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلُّويَةَ الْقَطَّانُ ثنا عَبَّادُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْخُتُلِّيُّ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «أَشَدُّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ»  

nasai-kubra:9709 – Aḥmad b. Ḥarb > Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Aʿmash > Muslim > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh

"The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Among the people who will be most severely punished on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5364)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٧٠٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِنَّ مِنْ أَشَدِّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ»  

nasai-kubra:9710 – Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Muḥammad b. Kathīr al-Ḥarrānī > Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ > Ismāʿīl b. Zakariyyā > Ḥuṣayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Muslim b. Ṣubayḥ > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh

"The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Among the people who will be most severely punished on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5364)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٧١٠ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حُصَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ صُبَيْحٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِنَّ مِنْ أَشَدِّ النَّاسِ عَذَابًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الْمُصَوِّرُونَ»