Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 740
حَدَّثَنَا جُبَارَةُ بْنُ الْمُغَلِّسِ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْكَرِيمِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْبَجَلِيُّ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " أَرَاكُمْ سَتُشَرِّفُونَ مَسَاجِدَكُمْ بَعْدِي كَمَا شَرَّفَتِ الْيَهُودُ كَنَائِسَهَا وَكَمَا شَرَّفَتِ النَّصَارَى بِيَعَهَا " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Jubarah ibn al-Mughallis narrated to us: 'Abd al-Karim ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Bajali narrated to us, from Layth, from 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘I can see that after I am gone, you will adorn your mosques as the Jews adorned their synagogues and the Christians adorned their churches.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The verb تشرفون can convey embellishing or making structures prominent; ‘adorn’ is used in parallel for the mosques, synagogues, and churches.