This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Zur'a and he said
Abu Huraira went to the house of Sa'ld or Marwan which they had built in Medina and he (Abu Huraira) saw a painter who had been painting pictures in his house , whereupon he told that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said like this , but he made no mention of the words : " Let him create the grain of barley."