Tim, the Hadith refers to banning all images of humans and animals,
not just Muhammad.
On 06/02/2008, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It's not in the Koran, it's in the Hadith.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith
Islam, like all the major religions, is a mixture of holy books and
established traditions. The petitioners seem to be almost entirely unaware
of the history of their traditions. Some of them claim that the image in
question couldn't possibly be of muslim origin, because no muslim would
create such an image.
-- Tim Starling
Meg