Ali reported, "I entered upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and saw him in a state of grief. I asked him what was the matter, and he said, 'Jibreel has not come to me for three days.'"Then suddenly, a puppy was found between his rooms. He ordered that it be killed, and it was killed. Then Jibreel appeared to him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ hurried toward him when he saw him and asked, "Why did you not come to me?"Jibreel replied, "We do not enter a house in which there is a dog or images."
قال دخلت على رسول الله ﷺ وعليه الكآبة، فسألته ما له؟ فقال: لم يأتني جبريل منذ ثلاث. قال: فإذا جرو كلب بين بيوته، فأمر به، فقتل، فبدا له جبريل عليه السلام، فبهش إليه رسول الله ﷺ حين رآه، فقال: لم تأتني؟ فقال: إنا لا ندخل بيتا فيه كلب ولا تصاوير.
Ahmad (21772), Bazzar (2590), and Tabarani in Al-Kabir (1/125) all narrated it through the route of Ibn Abu Dhib, from Harith, from Kurayb the freed slave of Ibn Abbas, from Usama bin Zayd, who related it. The wording is that of Ahmad. Its chain is hasan because of Harith, who is Ibn Abdul-Rahman the Qurashi, the Amiri, the maternal uncle of Ibn Abu Dhib, for he is hasan al-hadith. Kurayb is Ibn Abu Muslim the Hashimi, their freed slave, the Madinan, the freed slave of Ibn Abbas. His saying, "fabahasha," means he hurried and came forward toward him.