I came to 'A'isha and said to her : This is a news that I have received that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) had said : Angels do not enter the house in which there is a picture or a dog , (and further added) whether she had heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) making a mention of it. She said : No (I did not hear this myself) , but I narrate to you what I saw him doing. I bear testimony to the fact that he (the Holy Prophet) set out for an expedition. I took a carpet and screened the door with it. When he (the Holy Prophet) came back he saw that carpet and I perceived signs of disapproval on his face. He pulled it until it was torn or it was cut (into pieces) and he said : God has not commanded us to clothe stones and clay. We cut it (the curtain) and prepared two pillowa out of it by stuffing them with the fibre of date-palms and he (the Holy Prophet) did not find fault with it.