Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 3352

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى، أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لَمَّا رَأَى الصُّوَرَ فِي الْبَيْتِ لَمْ يَدْخُلْ، حَتَّى أَمَرَ بِهَا فَمُحِيَتْ، وَرَأَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ ـ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلاَمُ ـ بِأَيْدِيهِمَا الأَزْلاَمُ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ قَاتَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ، وَاللَّهِ إِنِ اسْتَقْسَمَا بِالأَزْلاَمِ قَطُّ ‏"‏‏.‏

Translation

Ibrahim ibn Musa informed us: Hisham informed us, from Maʿmar, from Ayyub, from ʿIkrima, from Ibn ʿAbbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), that when the Prophet ﷺ saw the images in the House, he did not enter until he ordered that they be erased. He saw Ibrahim and Ismaʿil (peace be upon them) depicted with divining arrows in their hands and said: ‘May Allah condemn them! By Allah, neither of them ever practiced divination by arrows.’

Translation notes
  • Kept the description of the images and the denial that Ibrahim and Ismaʿil used divining arrows.