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    <title>Do I lose good deeds if I keep a dog as a pet?</title>
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    <summary type="text">Do I lose good deeds if I keep a dog as a pet?
No, owning a dog does not cost you reward; he reads the dog hadith as hygiene measures against diseases like rabies, citing Ibn Rushd al-Jadd. Mufti Abu Layth says owning a dog does not make you lose rewards.
Answer from 5 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors
Kind: general teaching
Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&amp;A Unscripted &amp; Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 40:04)
A more recent answer on fiqh/purification exists (18 October 2025): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/19/
Watch on YouTube at 40:54: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&amp;t=2454s</summary>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do I lose good deeds if I keep a dog as a pet?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, owning a dog does not cost you reward; he reads the dog hadith as hygiene measures against diseases like rabies, citing Ibn Rushd al-Jadd. Mufti Abu Layth says owning a dog does not make you lose rewards.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Answer from 5 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kind: general teaching&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&amp;amp;A Unscripted &amp;amp; Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 40:04)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;A more recent answer on fiqh/purification exists&lt;/b&gt; (18 October 2025): &lt;a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/19/"&gt;Why does the guest's prayer have no fixed number of units, and what counts as wudu?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&amp;amp;t=2454s"&gt;Watch on YouTube at 40:54&lt;/a&gt; · &lt;a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/11/"&gt;Open the segment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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