مسند امام شافی · Hadith 1488

Malik told us, on the authority of Nafi`, that a man found a cat, so he came to Abd Allah ibn Umar, and he said: “I found it, and found it, then?” Ibn Omar said to him: Introduce her. He said: I did. He said: increase. He said: I did. He said: I do not command you to eat it, and if you wish you would not take it. He included the three hadiths in the book of the difference of Malik and Shafi’i.

Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020