What is the ruling on selling cats, mentioning the opinions of Ibn Abbas and Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with them both, regarding its permissibility or prohibition?

Scholars have differed on the ruling concerning the sale of cats. The majority of scholars, including the proponents of the four madhhabs, have deemed it permissible, while some scholars, such as the Dhahiriyyah, have prohibited it. The view of prohibition is given preference, based on what Muslim narrated from Abu Az-Zubair, who said: "I asked Jabir about the price of a dog and a cat? He said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade that." Some scholars have weakened these hadiths, but this opinion is refuted. Some scholars interpreted the prohibition as applying to a wild cat or to the early days of Islam when it was considered impure, but there is no clear evidence for either of these interpretations. Ibn Al-Qayyim definitively stated its prohibition in "Zad Al-Ma'ad," citing the authenticity of the hadith and its lack of contradiction. Ibn Al-Mundhir said: "If the prohibition of its sale is proven from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), then its sale is void, otherwise it is permissible." An-Nawawi held that the sale of domestic cats is permissible without dispute among them, except for a singular, invalid opinion. Those who prohibited the sale argued using the aforementioned hadith of Jabir. As for those who permitted it, they argued that it is pure and beneficial, and the conditions of sale are met for it. They responded to the prohibition hadith by saying that it refers to wild cats or that it is a prohibition of tanzih (discouragement rather than outright prohibition).