Thinking about death

The Book of Virtue, Enjoining Good Manners, and Joining of the Ties of Kinship

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 6679

دَخَلَتِ امْرَأَةٌ النَّارَ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ هِرَّةٍ لَهَا - أَوْ هِرٍّ - رَبَطَتْهَا فَلاَ هِيَ أَطْعَمَتْهَا وَلاَ هِيَ أَرْسَلَتْهَا تُرَمِّمُ مِنْ خَشَاشِ الأَرْضِ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ هَزْلاً

dakhalati āmraʾatun an-nāra min jarrāʾi hirratin lahā-aw hirrin-rabaṭathā falā hiya aṭʿamathā walā hiya arsalathā turammimu min khashāshi al-arḍi ḥattā mātat hazlan

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The full narration

Abu Huraira reported from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) A hadith out of which one was this that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:A woman got into Hell-Fire because of a cat whom she had tied, and thus it could not eat, and she did not let it free so that it could devour the vermin of the earth, until it died

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