Adnan Rajeh – The Unlawfulness of Harm #10

Collection of both.

This is the last hadith and on a

rate within the, theme of the unlawfulness of

Harm.

And I think it's an appropriate hadith to

conclude this series with because it's a,

it's one that

strikes you as quite,

I

wanna say odd, but it's a it's a

it's it's not what you you expect sometimes,

I guess, when you listen to these type

of hadith or or you or you or

you learn you're learning our faith, you don't

always expect you don't always expect a prophet

to say something like this. And he and

of course saying it, caused a lot of,

the Sahaba asked a lot of questions about

this one and they had a lot of

concerns because they didn't think that this was

the case. Of course, he explained it much

more throughout his life, alayhis salatu wa sama

became known. And the read goes as the

following.

So he said

was that a way a lady was punished

by Allah

because of a cat

that

she held captive

until it died.

Like, she basically imprisoned the cat or

put it in a cage or put it

somewhere until it died.

And the lady, because of this, entered in

Nar. This is the wording of the prophet,

alayhi, salaam.

Because of this, she went to the he

was punished in Jahannam. And then he comments,

alayhi, salaam, he says,

and he uses this here a couple of

times as if to emphasize

the how could she do this? Because he's

using this this terminology to

point out the the the horrible

by nature of this crime

that she did not feed her feed this

animal nor

quench his thirst when she held it captive,

nor did she open the door for her

to go and eat from the vermin of

the earth, whatever whatever existed outside.

As if the prophet

why could you

and this became

an issue for the suhava because they weren't

aware that this applied to animals.

Right?

They weren't aware that this

that it applied to animals. They understood, okay,

fine.

We can't be cruel or we can't harm

a human being.

But they thought animals were

no. Even an animal.

Even a cat.

Even a small creature that

yeah, she was punished. She went to Jahannam.

A person

would go to

Jahannam

because of a small cat

that

she didn't treat fairly,

that she didn't treat with mercy,

that she didn't show

any basic

decency and and and compassion towards.

And Alaihi Wasallam point that out. The harm

when we talk about the unlawfulness of harm,

we're not just talking about the unlawfulness of

harm towards

human beings. We're talking about the unlawfulness of

harm towards any living thing,

even something that you you consider not to

be not to be worthy or not to

be important. Alayhis salatu wasallahu alaihi wa sallam

would point out that it that it is

it is it is. And this hadith is

very scary

to me

because what we're

doing. I mean, I'll be causing

direct harm sometimes, Yani,

often, but I'm but I wonder sometimes about

the indirect harm that we cause with our

habits and diets and our choices in life,

whether we are causing indirect harm towards the

creatures of this planet and that we will

whether we will be held accountable for that

or not. I ask that Allah subhanahu wa'am

that we're not and that we're we're taught

the ways to be better.

But used this and the Sahaba heard it

and this is an unauthentic. This is Bukhari.

This is Mutafaq Ali Hadith.

This is one of the most authentic narrations

that we have. So when you hear it

and when you think of it, you have

to accept or you have to at

least pause for a moment and think about

what he's explaining

The mistreatment of an animal will lead for

a human being

to go to