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HOUSES IN WHICH ANGELS DO NOT ENTER

1733

“Gabriel promised to visit the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, at a certain time. The time came and Gabriel did not come. The Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, had a stick in his hand. He cast it down away saying, ‘Allah does not break His promise, nor His Messenger, praise and peace be upon him.’ Then he noticed a dog lying under his seat and asked, ‘When did this dog come in?’ I (Lady Ayesha, wife of the Prophet, may Allah be pleased with her, Mother of Believers) said, ‘I did not know it had come in.’ He asked for it to be put outside and so it was driven out. Then Gabriel came and the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, said to him, ‘You promised to visit me and I sat waiting for you but you did not come.’ He replied, ‘I was delayed by the dog in your house. We do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a portrait.’"

Muslim with a chain up to Lady Ayesha, wife of the Prophet, may Allah be pleased with her, Mother of Believers who related that the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, said this.