“18. And thou wouldst have deemed them waking though they were asleep, and We caused them to turn over to the right and the left, and their dog stretching out his paws on the threshold. If thou hadst observed them closely thou hadst assuredly turned away from them in flight, and hadst been filled with awe of them.”

We caused them to turn, which by some interpretations would have been Angels who would have to have been inside the cave with a dog turning these righteous believers.

Ultimately, when Allah mentions something in Quran it’s either permissible, permissible with conditions, or haram. As you’ve pointed out according to suratul Maida, dogs are allowed to hunt (using their mouths with saliva) and this is halal. No restrictions or conditions were placed. Nothing trumps Quran.

So, at best it’s disliked or makrooh, but in my opinion people are cherry picking Hadith to make something haram that Allah did not.

I have two dogs, used for protection, and they stay inside for safety.

I’m perfectly satisfied that it’s not forbidden and in fact we’ve experienced several blessings from their presence and awareness Alhamdulillah.

I also agree! I have loved and lived with dogs for 25 years. I am taking a college landscaping course and the final assignment involves a “mock client” who has a dog and cats. One bully student makes his hatred, dislike and distain for dogs vocal every time the word “dog” is mentioned. When I was speaking about dogs on my assignment the man made a negative comment on dogs. I told him he needed to keep his anti-dog bias to himself. The man said he had a right to speak negatively about dogs and threatened me with violence. The Dean of Students has now told the man the keep his negative opinions of dogs to himself. The man has said to me that he hates dogs. To my horror I have found that your religion justifies his hate by unjustly singling out dogs as impure, dirty and evil. Hatred for dogs has no place in the classroom or decent society. This comment will be censored by dog haters but it is the truth.

I didn’t even make that comment but Jazak Allah Khair brother. May Allah make this one of your good deeds and reward you with even more knowledge of our deen. Ameen

IN ALL OF THESE WHAT I VIEW IS THAT WE SHOULD STOP INTENTIONALLY NEGLECT ANY COMMANDMENT OF THE RASUL IN OTHER TO ENTICE PEOPLE TO BE MUSLIMS. AS ALLAH HAVE SAID THE HE GUIDES WHO EVER HE WISHES TO THE TRUTH .IF THEY FEEL ANY RULING IN ISLAM IS ILLOGICAL,THERE IS NO NEED TO ENTICE THEM TO ACCEPT IT IN ANY WAY CONTRARY TO IT.WE SHOULD FOCUS MORE ON FINDING LOGICALITIES IN ALLAH AND THE RASUL’S COMMAND MENT THAN FINDING ILLOGICALITIES IN THEM .YOU CAN’T KEEP DOG AS A PET.BUT THE PROPHET NEVER PREVENTED US TO BE KIND TO THEM.SO I’LL LIKE TO ASK DO YOU PREFERE DOGS OR THE ANGELS OF MERCY?

b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm. I can only speak from the experiences and knowledge I have. Having read Quran as a child, returning it to the library at it’s due time, being punished and commanded by parents to ignore all of it’s teachings because it was not christian, according to them.
Then later it was Christians who deemed me unworthy of life and banished me to live like a dog. Long story short, there were many misconceptions about me, being a traveller from another place and having my medical needs unmet that left me in an unhealthy and emaciated state. Upon having reconciled this problem myself because my father would not purchase the medicine I needed, once I saved my own life this angered him, and he attempted to take my life from me.
I always had a dog until that time. The dogs being limited creatures of the earth, but they look up to us, humans, for guidance and care. Then it was their turn to return this care.
Because the dogs led me to where I am now. Yes I lived with them. I had to live in a cardboard box in chokingly polluted air to salvage myself from my father’s insistence upon my murder. The dogs comforted me. They led me to where to find food. Where the dog’s weren’t I had to resort to terrible sins to survive this youth.
And a black widow spider was a tool of Allah’s to salvage me from the streets until I was deemed legal to care for myself, forced my family to care for me to some extent.
A few years ago I was injured in a random act of violence by drunken and likely drugged individuals, mugging me for what money I had.
My doctor agreed I needed a service dog for protection and guidance home when my brain injuries left me dizzy, vulnerable and confused.
There is much, much more involving where dogs have intervened in my life. If it was not for my dog Fred, and a dream he caused me to have, and a warning at the last minute before my fathers attempt at the most horrific of mortal sin, I would not be alive today to tell you of this.
9 years later my dizziness and clarity is much better. I do not live in urban surroundings now, so my dog’s service function to me is only when I travel.
It was distressing to me that a Muslim family would not even emerge from their apartment at one work assignment I had when I had Caleb with me. Although I told them they had nothing to fear, they still hid and one of them said “He has teeth, doesn’t he”. “Yes”, I replied, “And so do you.”
My adoptive son has encouraged and motivated me to study the Quran and Islam. So I have adopted some of the practices. Living in an area practically devoid of Muslims now, halal things are impractical to the point of being unaffordable, unattainable here. This bothers me some, as does the notion that many Muslim would harm my animals that have done so much for me.

My doberman just passed away at 5 years old, best friend our family has ever had. I buried him the way we would our own. Be good to yours, may he be free to run green fields and enjoy his family’s company for many years. iA

No. You cannot have a guide dog without having it in your home, feeding and touching it. It is a guide dog because it (by the grace of dog) understands companionship and getting a reward for help including a persons gratefulness and love for him. Are you going to say that, well you have the walking stick.

Looking at Islam from an overall perspective is something alien to most of those who are born muslims. They take hadiths in isolation even if it contradicts the Quran and the basic tenets of Islam. Consider yourself lucky because you are (most likely) a revert to Islam by discovering it through the Quran. It gives you a foundation which cannot be shaken.

Islam is the guide for us to live in this world. Does keeping a dog add benefit to our life? Certainly: Yes. Why does Allah give all the beneficial faculties (fitrah) of a dog if if not for us to use. Which blessings of your Lord do you deny?