The cat in the hadith

الهرة في الحديث

In the chapter 'the prohibition of torturing a cat and the like of an animal that does no harm' in Sahih Muslim, Ibn Umar and Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) transmit from the Prophet ﷺ that a woman was punished because of a cat she had shut up until it died; she entered the Fire, since she neither fed it nor gave it drink while she held it, nor let it go to eat from the vermin of the earth ¹. The hadith is the basis for the duty to care for an animal in one's keeping, and for the view that withholding food and drink from a confined animal is a sin.