Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1903
Arabic hadith text
وَعَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ وَأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَا: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «عُذِّبَتِ امْرَأَةٌ فِي هِرَّةٍ أَمْسَكَتْهَا حَتَّى مَاتَتْ مِنَ الْجُوعِ فَلَمْ تَكُنْ تُطْعِمُهَا وَلَا تُرْسِلُهَا فَتَأْكُلَ مِنْ خَشَاشِ الْأَرْضِ»
Translation
Ibn Umar and Abu Huraira said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘A woman was punished because of a cat she kept confined until it died of hunger. She neither fed it nor released it to eat the creatures of the earth.’
Translation notes
The Arabic says khashāsh al-arḍ for the small creatures found on the earth; no collection attribution appears in the source passage.