from Abū Umāmah, traced back to the Prophet.

I say: its chain is good. Al-Haythamī notes (4/33), “Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Kabīr and its narrators are trustworthy.” Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī also cited it in al-Mukhtārah, as mentioned in al-Suyūṭī’s al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr.

28 – “A woman was punished because of a cat that she kept locked up until it died, and because of it she entered the Fire: she neither fed it nor gave it water while she confined it, nor did she release it so that it could eat from the insects of the earth.”

Al-Bukhārī narrated it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (2/78, European ed.) and in al-Adab al-Mufrad (no. 379), and Muslim (7/43) through Nāfiʿ from ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar, traced back to the Prophet. Muslim and Aḥmad (2/507) likewise transmitted it through other routes from Abū Hurayrah with similar wording. (The phrase “insects of the earth” refers to crawling creatures and vermin.)

29 – “While a man was walking along a road, intense thirst overtook him. He found a well, went down into it, drank, and came out. He then saw a dog panting, licking the moist earth out of thirst. The man said, ‘This dog has reached the same degree of thirst that afflicted me.’ So he went back down the well, filled his leather sock with water, clenched it between his teeth, climbed out, and gave the dog a drink. Allah appreciated the deed and forgave him.” They asked, “Messenger of Allah, is there a reward for us even with animals?” He replied, “For every living creature with a moist liver there is a reward.”

Mālik related it in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (pp. 929–930); al-Bukhārī transmitted it from him in his Ṣaḥīḥ (2/77–78, 103; 4/117, European ed.) and in al-Adab al-Mufrad (no. 378).