Mujāhid from Abū Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim, and it was authenticated by al-Tirmidhī and others. Yūnus explicitly stated the transmission in the narration of Ibn Ḥibbān, and his memory has slight weakness that does not harm his ḥadīth. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Trustworthy, but makes slight mistakes." I said: Abū Isḥāq followed him, as Aḥmad (2/308) said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, informing us from Maʿmar from Abū Isḥāq from Mujāhid with it in a shortened form in the second narration. This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim], except that Abū Isḥāq, who is al-Sabīʿī, the father of Yūnus, had changed in his later years, and there is a difference in his wording. Maʿmar narrated it from him in this way, and Abū Bakr narrated it from him similarly with the wording: "Either cut off their heads, or make them a mat to be stepped on." It was produced by al-Nasāʾī (2/302). The first is more authentic because Maʿmar preserved it from Abū Bakr, who is Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Kūfī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "Trustworthy, devout, but when he grew old, his memory deteriorated, and his book is authentic." The fiqh of the ḥadīth: First: The prohibition of images, as they are a reason for preventing the entry of angels, and the ḥadīths on their prohibition are too well-known to mention. Second: The prohibition includes images that are not three-dimensional and have no shadow, due to the general statement of Jibrīl (ʿalayhi al-salām): "We do not enter a house that contains images," and these are the images. It is supported by the fact that the images on the curtain had no shadow, and there is no difference between those that are embroidered on cloth, written on paper, or drawn with a photographic device, as all of these are images and imaging, and the distinction