Cats in Islam💖🥀

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was fond of cats🐱🐾

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ being the messenger of Allah SWT and a role model for the mankind was very Compassionate person and he taught Muslims to love animals and show a compassionate behaviour towards them, Try not to disturb anyone sleeping even though if it is an animal.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ fondness for cats is conveyed in his hadith: "Affection for cats is part of faith" (Maqasid al-Hasanah, al-Sakhawi). So, loving a cat is a sign that someone is a believer. When Prophet Muhammad came across a black-and-white Abyssinian cat breastfeeding her kitten during the Uhud campaign, he changed the course of his soldiers. On his way back he adopted this cat and gave her the name "Muezza." One day, he slightly tipped his cup so that a cat passing by could drink some water.

And loved his cat muezza.🖤

Verily, there is heavenly reward for every act of kindness done to a living animal.🥀

- Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: "A good deed done to an animal is like a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as cruelty to a human being."💕

The Messenger of Allah said: A woman was punished in hell because of a cat which she had confined until it dead.

She did not give it to eat or to drink when it was confined, nor did she free it so that it might eat the vermin of earth. 💕

-Bhukhari and Muslim

“Cats don’t invalidate the prayer Bcz they’re the one of the things that are useful in the house.”🥀

- Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Narrated by Abu Hurairah; Ibn Majah:369.

A companion of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was given the name Abu Hurairah, which means "father of cats." Abu Hurairah was given this name because wherever he went, he always had a cat with him. It is even said among the people that Prophet Muhammad stroked the back of a cat for strangling a snake that was about to harm someone and that is why cats land on four feet and not on their backs.