Al-Kāfi - The Book of Domestic Animals

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Domestic Animals عَنْهُ عَنْ عُثْ٠َاعَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْكَلْبِ نُ٠ْسِكُهُ فِي الدَّارِ قَالَ لَا. 3. It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from ‘Uthman from Sama‘ah who has said the following: “I once asked him (the Imam) (a.s.), if we can keep a dog in the house.

He (the Imam) said, ‘No, you must not do so.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/476))