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705. It was narrated from ‘Aishah that Umm Habibah and Umm Salamah mentioned a church that they had seen in Ethiopia, in which there were images. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Those people, if there was a righteous man among them, when he died they built a place of worship over his grave and made those images. They will be the most evil of creation before Allāh on the Day of Resurrection.” (Sahih)
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1. Umm Salamah and Umm Habibah along with their husbands were among the emigrants who had emigrated to Ethiopia (Habasha or Abyssinia). It was the land of the Christians.
2. The Christians' prophets: It denotes the disciples (of Isa) and the righteous men, because the Christians considered them like prophets and obeyed them unconditionally.