After Imaam Al-Albaani mentioned some tremendous hadith and statements of the salaf regarding kindness to animals. He concluded the following:
“These are some of the reports that I have come across so far, which show the extent to which the early Muslims were influenced by the Prophet’s ﷺ guidance regarding kindness to animals. In reality, they are but a little from much, and a drop from an ocean. This is clear evidence that Islam is the one which established for mankind the principle of kindness to animals, contrary to what some ignorant people think, that it originated from the European disbelievers. Rather, it was one of the etiquettes that they (Europeans) adopted from the early Muslims, then expanded upon it, systemized it in detail, and their states adopted it, until kindness to animals became one of their distinguishing features today. This has led some ignorant people to imagine that it is one of their (the Europeans’) unique characteristics, deceived by the fact that such a system is rarely seen implemented in Muslim lands, even though the Muslims were more deserving of it and its rightful people!”
al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah (1/69)
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