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The cat

الهرة

The Prophet said of the cat: it is not unclean, it is one of those that go about among you; and a woman was punished for a cat she shut up — she neither fed it nor let it eat of the vermin of the earth.

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Muwatta 1030
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The cat in the hadith· The fox

People and things also explored

The fox· Muwatta 1030· The cheetah· The hyena· The leopard· The lion (qaswara)· The wolf· Expiation (kaffara)

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  • Sunan Abi Dawud
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The fox

Malik counted it among the beasts that do not attack people, with the hyena and the cat — the pilgrim does not kill it, and if he does he pays ransom: the thicket-hunter has the sanctuary's peace so long as it does not attack.