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I asked several Imams and teachers this question and none seem to actually address the fact that in the Qur’an dogs are spoken about in quite positive terms, but then in the hadith there are some strong objections to having dogs unless they serve a direct purpose (i.e. protection, hunting, shepherding). Now I follow hadiths but never with more trust than the Qur’an. When talking to an expert on Shari’ah or Islamic law, he said even our best hadiths are at most maybe 90-95% certain because you can’t be 100% sure when something is transmitted through many narraters like a game of telephone. Obviously as someone who studied Law at Al-Ahzar, he was not belittling the importance of hadith, but he was mentioning that if the Qur’an says something we always want to give the most importance to that saying over the hadith. In essence, no matter how certain a hadith seems if it even seemingly disagrees with the Qur’an it has little standing.

You have the case of the companions of the cave, where they have a dog as a companion that sleep INSIDE of the cave with them and the case where the Qur’an says dogs can be used as hunting animals and what they catch (with their teeth) is permissible by humans to be consumed. In the case that a dog is used as a hunting animal, the dog catches something with its mouth and its teeth pierce the flesh of the animal so its saliva mixes with the other animal.