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Fish_Prawn_Shrimp | Hubeali Skip to content Hubeali Menu Topics Quran Tafseer Books Urdu Books English Books Sermons School of Wilayat Search for: Search Button Home Articles Fish_Prawn_Shrimp Details Sidebar Table of contents Summary: Introduction: Fish with Scales: It is recommended to eat sweet food after eating Fish: Eating Fish after cupping gives strength: Prawn/Shrimp: Imam-asws forbids all creatures of the Sea except for the ones with scales: The floating fish (Dead fish even with scales) is forbidden to eat: There are Ahadith which are general: Shell fish: Caviar (eggs of fish) is also Harram Appendix: Fish with scales Fish_Prawn_Shrimp (a) Fish with scales (b) Prawns Summary: In Ahadith presented below, Fish with scales on its skin is Halal (permissible) to eat.

However, if found floating (dead) on the surface of water, it is Harram (forbidden) to eat. Shellfish is forbidden, as well as all those species belonging to its family, i.e., the prawn/shrimp. Shellfish contains impure meat fractions and is not from fish and, similarly prawn is other than the fish (hence its hard shell should not be mixed up with the scales of a fish as it is completely different).

Prawns are more closely related with the shellfish and cannot be related to the fish having scales. [1] However, we will find a few Hadith which allow for eating prawns – but those accounts could be out of dissimulation (Taqeeya), as general Muslims allow for eating all seafood including prawns.

There are Ahadith which categorically make prawns harram (forbidden) whereas none of the Hadith encourage us to eat it (to reap any benefits), so we would rather follow those Ahadith which specifically state to only eat from the sea the fish with scales.

And regarding meat, one must be certain that its permissible (Halal) to consume otherwise it is better not to touch it, e.g., the following Hadith: فقدت من بني إسرائيل أمتان واحدة في البحر و أخرى في البر فلا تأكلوا إلا ما عرفتم (Amir-ul-Momineen – asws said) From the Children of Israel, two nations were lost, one went into the sea whereas the other went missing into the land, so one should not eat (meat) unless after becoming absolutely sure about its origin (Halal species).

[2] Introduction: Ahadith are presented in this section on what is permissible to eat from the water species and what is not.