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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The sin of keeping a cat locked up until it died of hunger

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a woman says to me: My son is truly attached to animals, and he is one of those with special needs. We had raised a cat in the house, and when we went to Dammam, this cat died of hunger for a week. Do we have any sin on us?

Answer:
Yes, you have a sin in this. It came in the authentic hadith that
A woman entered the Fire because of a cat she had locked up; she neither fed it nor let it go to eat from the creatures of the earth.امرأة دخلت النار في هرة حبستها، فلا هي أطعمتها، ولا هي تركتها تأكل من خشاش الأرض،
This contains a severe warning. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/032 — archive.org (10:15)

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