Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "A woman was punished because of a cat which she had tied up, and she neither gave it anything to eat nor did she let it go so that it could eat from the earth itself." The same narration is also transmitted with another chain from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him).