[14] وَ مِنْهُ، عَنِ السَّيَّارِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُمْهُورٍ بِإِسْنَادٍ لَهُ قَالَ حَمَلَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ الْإِرْبِيَانَ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع وَ قَالَ: إِنَّ هَذَا نَتَّخِذُ مِنْهُ عِنْدَنَا شَيْءٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ الرَّبِيثَا يُسْتَطَابُ أَكْلُهُ وَ يُؤْكَلُ رَطْباً وَ يَابِساً وَ طَبِيخاً وَ إِنَّ أَصْحَابَنَا يَخْتَلِفُونَ مِنْهُ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَقُولُ إِنَّ أَكْلَهُ لَا يَجُوزُ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَأْكُلُهُ And from him, from Al Sayyari, from Muhammad Bin Jamhour, by a chain of his, said, ‘A man carried the prawns to Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘This, we have taken from it.
There is something from it with us called ‘Al-Rabeesa’. Is it recommended to eat it, can it be eaten wet, and dry, and cooked, and that our companions are differing from it. From them is one saying, ‘Eating it is not allowed, and from them is one eating it’. فَقَالَ لِي كُلْهُ فَإِنَّهُ جِنْسٌ مِنَ السَّمَكِ أَ مَا تَرَاهَا تَقَلْقَلُ فِي قِشْرِهَا. He -asws said to me: ‘Eat it, for it is a species from the fish.
Are you not seeing them crackling in their scales?’’ [15] Shell fish: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْعَمْرَكِيِّ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَخِيهِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْأَوَّلِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ لَا يَحِلُّ أَكْلُ الْجِرِّيِّ وَ لَا السُّلَحْفَاةِ وَ لَا السَّرَطَانِ قَالَ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ اللَّحْمِ الَّذِي يَكُونُ فِي أَصْدَافِ الْبَحْرِ وَ الْفُرَاتِ أَ يُؤْكَلُ فَقَالَ ذَاكَ لَحْمُ الضَّفَادِعِ لَا يَحِلُّ أَكْلُهُ .
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Al Amraky Bin Ali, from; Ali son of Ja’far -asws , from his brother -asws Abu Al-Hassan -asws having said: ‘It is not Permissible to eat the catfish, nor the tortoise, nor the crab’. And I asked him -asws about the flesh which happens to be in the sea shells of the sea , and the Euphrates, can one eat?’ So he -asws said: ‘That is a flesh of the frogs, it is not Permissible to eat it’.
[16] Caviar (eggs of fish) is also Harram Caviar, the roe of sturgeon, was once unanimously declared Harram by the twelve Imami Shias, as the consumption of sturgeon was considered forbidden (haram) under Shiite law because under that law only fishes with scales (and their roe) can be eaten, whereas the sturgeon lacked scales. However, later on, due to its attractive commercial value it was accepted a Halal by the Iranian government in 80s.