Is it haram or even undesireable for us to touch dogs? I have heard many Muslims say that dogs are dirty and Satan has spit on them. Also, that if we do touch a dog, we have to wash our hands several times. I haven't been able to find anything concerning this in the Qur'an, Hadith, or Islamic books. Please help.
The answer to this question is twofold:
1 – The ruling on keeping a dog.
It is haraam to keep a dog unless it is for the purposes for
which Islam permits keeping dogs. Whoever keeps a dog – except a dog for
hunting or farming – his reward will decrease each day by one or two
qeeraats.
It was narrated that Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with
him) said: “I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) say: ‘Whoever keeps a dog, except a dog that is trained
for hunting or a dog for herding livestock, his reward will decrease each
day by two qeeraats.’” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5059; Muslim, 2941;
according to another version narrated by them both, “one qeeraat”).
The word qeeraat refers to a large amount of reward; if a
person’s reward decreases by one qeeraat, that means that he is sinning, for
losing reward is like earning sin, both indicate that something is haraam
because of the consequences it leads to.
The impurity of dogs is the greatest of animal impurities.
The impurity of a dog can only be removed by washing seven times, one of
which should be with earth. Even pigs, which the Qur’aan states are haraam
and describes as an abomination (rijs) are not naajis (impure) to such an
extent.
Dogs are impure and filthy, but unfortunately we find that
some people are attracted to the ways of the kuffaar and their filthy
habits, so they have started to keep dogs unnecessarily for no reason,
keeping them, training them and cleaning them even though they can never be
clean, even if they were washed with the waters of the ocean, because they
are essentially impure.
Our advice to them is to repent to Allaah and to get the dogs
out of their homes.
But in the case of dogs which are needed for hunting, farming
and herding livestock, there is nothing wrong with that because the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) gave permission for that.
If you throw this dog out of your house, you will no longer be responsible
for it, so do not keep it with you.
2 – The ruling on touching a dog
If you touch it when it is not wet, then your hand does not
become impure, but if you touch it when it is wet, this means that the hand
becomes impure, according to the opinion of many scholars, and the hand must
be washed seven times, one of which should be with earth.
With regard to vessels, if a dog has licked a vessel (i.e.,
drunk from it), then the vessel must be washed seven times, one of which
should be with earth, as was proven in al-Saheehayn and elsewhere, in
the hadeeth narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who
said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“If a dog licks the vessel of any one of you, let him wash it seven times,
one of which should be with earth.” It is better if the washing with earth
be the first washing. And Allaah knows best.
See Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen,
11/246; Fataawa Islamiyyah, 4/447.
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