Is someone who hit a female dog with a piece of wood on its mouth when it attacked him on his way to Fajr prayer sinful?
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You bear no sin for what you did, because you repelled the dog when it attacked you. Furthermore, the rabid dog may be killed whether in sacred or ordinary territory.
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