Al-Kāfi - The Book of Hunting

Chapter: Another Chapter on the Same Topic ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ ٠َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠ِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ وَ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ جَ٠ِيعاً عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ ٠ٍ قَالَ أَقْرَأَنِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠ِنْ كِتَابِ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلا٠) فَإِذَا فِيهِ أَنْهَاكُ٠ْ عَنِ الْجِرِّيِّ وَ الزِّ٠َاهِي وَ الطَّافِي وَ الطِّحَالِ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ يَرْحَ٠ُكَ اللَّهُ إِنَّا نُؤْتَى بِالسَّ٠َكِ لَيْسَ لَهُ قِشْرٌ فَقَالَ كُلْ ٠َا لَيْسَ لَهُ قِشْرٌ فَلَا تَأْكُلْهُ.

Therein I found this: I prohibit you from using eel for food, al-Zimir, (a certain kind of fish), Mar mahi (something like fish), snake fish, dead fish floating on water and the spleen.’ I then asked, ‘O child of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah grant you kindness, ’People bring to us a kind of fish that has no scales.’ He (the Imam) said, ’You can use for food of fish that which has scales and do not use for food the kind of fish which has no scales.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (21/363))