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[Noor]

What is the ruling concering neutering one's cat? Is it haraam or is it mubaah?





p.s. if this question was previously answered forgive me, but I searched and did not find anything.

 

[Nσσя'υℓ Jαииαн]

Ohhh I wanted to ask this question too. I'll wait also.

 

[NoName55]

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SPCA asked "Jawatankuasa Kemajuan Islam Malaysia" regarding the neutering of pets. Below is the "fatwa" issued by JAKIM (July 2002):

"All pets like cats and dogs are allowed to be neutered or spayed in order to maintain the health and welfare of both the animals and the community."

"Bahawa mengembiri binatang kesayangan seperti kucing atau anjing hukumnya adalah diharuskan dengan sebab-sebab tertentu iaitu bagi menjaga muslahat ummah."

After studying the messages of the aforementioned "mazhab" and the medical viewpoint of the SPCA animal experts, 'JAKIM' has decided that neutering of cats for reasons of 'maslahat' is acceptable. It is in agreement with 'qaedah' (way) Fiqhiyyah which states
"To choose the lesser of two evils".

Allah Aalim
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[NoName55]

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=10502&ln=eng&txt=neutering

The Hanafis said that there is nothing wrong with neutering animals, because that benefits both the animals and humans.

The Maalikis said that it is permissible to neuter animals whose meat may be eaten, and it is not makrooh, because that makes the meat better.
The Shaafa’is made a distinction between animals whose meat is eaten and others. They said that it is permissible to neuter animals when they are small if they are animals whose meat is eaten, but it is haraam in other cases. They also stipulated the condition that this neutering should not cause the animal’s death.

As for the Hanbalis, it is permissible in their view to neuter sheep because that makes the meat better, but it was said that it is makrooh in the case of horses etc.
Imam Ahmad said: I do not like for a man to neuter anything, rather that is makrooh because of the prohibition on causing pain to animals.
See al-Majmoo’ 6/155; al-Adab al-Shar’iyyah, 3/144, 145; al-Fataawa al-Hindiyyah, 5/358)

There is also a comment on neutering cats: “If neutering cats will bring some benefit or ward off some harm, then there is nothing wrong with it, as it says in al-Kubra.”
(al-Fawaakih al-Dawaani, 2/346)

Hence we say that if there is some benefit in neutering the cat and if that will not cause its death, then it is permissible.

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

If there are too many cats and they are a nuisance, and if the operation will not harm them, then there is nothing wrong with it, because this is better than killing them after they have been created. But if the cats are ordinary cats and are not causing a nuisance, perhaps it is better to leave them alone to reproduce.
Fataawa Islamiyyah, 4/448

 

[Talha777]

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu

Ibn Abbas (Razi Allahu Anhu) says that Rasulullah (salallahu alaihi wa salam) strictly forbade from tying beings that have souls and doing archery on them and the castrating of animals.

(This hadith has been narrated by Bazaar in his Musnad and all the narrators are of Sahih Bukhari & Sahih Muslim) (Majma-uz-Zawaid Vol. 5 pg 265. The Sanad of this hadith is Sahih)

(Nail-ul- Autar Vol. 8 pg 73)

 

[Nσσя'υℓ Jαииαн]

JazakAllah Khair!