What Is the Ruling on Selling Cats? | Shaykh Salih al Fawzan

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📌 Is it haram to sell cats in Islam? Can Muslims buy and sell cats? What is the Islamic ruling on selling cats? In this short fatwa, Shaykh Salih al Fawzan explains the ruling on buying and selling cats in Islam and mentions the prohibition of selling cats reported from the Prophet ﷺ. 📖 Evidence from the Sunnah: 1. Abu Zubair said: سَأَلْتُ جَابِرًا عَنْ ثَمَنِ الْكَلْبِ، وَالسِّنَّوْرِ، قَالَ زَجَرَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنْ ذَلِكَ ‏.‏ I asked Jabir about the price of a dog and a cat; he said: Allah's Messenger ﷺ disapproved of that. [Sahih Muslim] 2. Narrated by Jabir ibn Abdullah: أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ نَهَى عَنْ ثَمَنِ الْكَلْبِ وَالسِّنَّوْرِ ‏. The Prophet ﷺ forbade payment for dog and cat. [Sunan Abi Dawud - Authenticated by Al-Albani] 📌 Fatwa Source: 1388- ما حكم بيع القطط؟ - صالح الفوزان https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpk0JpMU1jw ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SellingCats #CatsInIslam #IsSellingCatsHaram #BuyingCats #IslamicRuling #IslamicFiqh #Fiqh #Fatwa #Fatawa #Islam #IslamicKnowledge #IslamicReminder #Sunnah #QuranAndSunnah #AhlusSunnah #Salafi #Salafiyyah #ShaykhSalihAlFawzan #SalihAlFawzan #Fawzan #Halal #Haram #HalalAndHaram #Muslim #Muslims #IslamicLaw #IslamicScholar #IslamicScholars #SeekingKnowledge #Dawah #AuthenticIslam #Quran #salafi