What is the ruling on keeping a dog to guard the house?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to keep a dog for the purpose of guarding the house?
Answer:
It is not permissible to keep a dog for guarding livestock or guarding crops. As for the house, a dog is not kept for its guard; rather, the angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to keep a dog for the purpose of guarding the house?
Answer:
It is not permissible to keep a dog for guarding livestock or guarding crops. As for the house, a dog is not kept for its guard; rather, the angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم اقتناء الكلب لحراسة البيت؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.