Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 4508
وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: لَمَّا اشْتَكَى النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ذَكَرَ بَعْضُ نِسَائِهِ كَنِيسَةً يُقَالُ لَهَا: مَارِيَّةُ وَكَانَتْ أُمُّ سَلمَة وَأم حَبِيبَة أتتا أرضَ الْحَبَشَة فَذَكرنَا مِنْ حُسْنِهَا وَتَصَاوِيرَ فِيهَا فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَقَالَ: «أُولَئِكَ إِذَا مَاتَ فِيهِمُ الرَّجُلُ الصَّالِحُ بَنَوْا عَلَى قَبْرِهِ مَسْجِدًا ثُمَّ صَوَّرُوا فِيهِ تِلْكَ الصُّور أُولَئِكَ شرار خلق الله»
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
It is related from Aishah, who said: When the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) fell ill, some of his wives mentioned a church called Mariyah. Umm Salamah and Umm Habibah had visited the land of Abyssinia, and they described its beauty and the images in it. He raised his head and said, “When a righteous man among them dies, they build a place of worship over his grave, then make those images there. They are the worst of creation in the sight of Allah.”