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What is the ruling on photography of living beings?

Scholars differ: many permit photographs for identification, education, and necessity, while some restrict images of living beings based on narrations about image-making. Practical, non-idolatrous photography is widely permitted by contemporary scholars.

Evidence — the daleel
Sahih al-Bukhari 5950 Ṣaḥīḥ
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