Kindness to animals

Kindness to animals

1991 7 July 11 Kindness to animals (108) Abdullah ibn Mas’ood recalls how, when they were with the Prophet on a journey, they pitched camp in a place where there was a bird’s nest, with a mother and two baby birds in it. They caught the baby birds, as a result of which the mother started squawking and fluttering its wings· When the Prophet learnt of this, he told whoever had wronged the bird to return its babies. Once the Prophet saw that an ants’ nest had been incinerated. He asked who had done this. When the people responsible owned up, he told them that no one save the Lord was entitled to punish by fire.