Volume 3, Book 40, Number 553:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle said, “A woman was tortured and was put in Hell because of a cat which she had
kept locked till it died of hunger.” Allah’s Apostle further said, (Allah knows better) Allah said (to the
woman), ‘You neither fed it nor watered when you locked it up, nor did you set it free to eat the in –
sects of the earth.”