Aslam

Praise be to Allah.

Undoubtedly this action that you did is something which

is forbidden according to sharee’ah and is not permitted. This is a

form of tormenting animals which the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade.

1.It was narrated in the

hadeeth from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “A woman was punished

for a cat which she imprisoned until it died, and she entered Hell because

of that. She did not feed it or give it water when she imprisoned it,

and she did not leave it free to eat of the vermin of the earth.” (Narrated

by al-Bukhaari, 2236; Muslim, 2242). Al-Nawawi said: the apparent meaning

of the hadeeth is that she went to Hell only because of this sin.

2.It was narrated from Ibn

‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) that he entered upon Yahyaa ibn

Sa’eed and one of Yahyaa’s sons had tied up a hen and was shooting at

it. Ibn ‘Umar walked over to him and untied it, then he brought it and

the boy and said, “Do not allow your boys to tie up birds in order to

kill them, for I heard the Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbidding the tying up

of animals or other creatures in order to kill them.”

(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5195; Muslim, 1958. The version

narrated by Muslim says, “The Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed those who do that.”)

3.It says in another hadeeth

which was narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas that the Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Do not use anything

in which there is a soul as a target.” (Narrated by Muslim, 1957).

Al-Nawawi said:

The Messenger of Allaah

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade detaining or tying

up animals (for the purpose of killing them); according to another report,

‘Do not take anything in which there is a soul as a target.’ The scholars

said that tying up animals means restraining them whilst they are still

alive in order to use them as targets and so on. The words ‘Do not take

anything in which there is a soul as a target’ means do not use living

animals as targets for shooting as targets made of leather and so on

are used. This prohibition means that doing this is haraam. Hence the

Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, according to the report

narrated by Ibn ‘Umar which follows this report: “Allaah cursed the

one who does that.” And because it is torturing animals, a waste of

their [animals’] lives, a waste of money, causing the animal to die

without slaughtering it in the proper Islamic manner if it is an animal

whose meat may be eaten, and wasting an animal from which benefit may

be derived in other ways if it is an animal whose meat may not be eaten.

Sharh Muslim, 13/108

You must repent sincerely to Allaah from this deed and

seek His forgiveness, and do lots of good deeds so that Allaah will

forgive your sin.

And Allaah is the Guide to the straight

path.