Filthiness of Polytheists

Um Habiba and Um Salama mentioned a church they had seen in Ethiopia and in the church there were pictures. When they told the Prophet (ﷺ) of this, he said, "Those people are such that if a pious man...

Between man and polytheism and unbelief is the abandonment of salat.

" The other did not keep himself safe from being defiled by urine."

The people (mostly) were workers and they had no servants. Ill-smell thus emitted out of them. It was said to them: Were you to take bath on Friday.

What about the children of polytheists killed by the cavalry during the night raid? He said: They are from them.

He who played Nardashir (a game similar to backgammon) is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.

it contains greasiness.

This tradition has also been transmitted through a chain by Bakr b. ‘Abd Allah. This version has the word Khubuth (filth) and in two places the word Khubuthan (filth).

We live in the neighbourhood of the People of the Book and they cook in their pots(the flesh of) swine and drink wine in their vessels. The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said: If you find any other pots, then...

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The angels do not come near three: the dead body of the unbeliever, one who smears himself with khaluq, and the one who is sexually defiled except that he performs ablution.