Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Prawns and Shrimp Halal or Haram Answered
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Right prompts the question of prawns and shrimps. Are they halal
or haram? There's two things firstly, those who like to eat
prawns and shrimps. This is only a problem in the Hanafi school just
just to let you know, a contra Scheffer is the Maliki's on the
humblest they go with a hadith that everything in the sea is
halal for you. The Hanafi say that that is too general of a
narration. There's another narration which the Prophet
salallahu Salam said that there are two the two animals that are
generally understood to be haram to be made Halawa, you are in the
locker room
and made the turn to dead animals have been made halal for you
meaning to animals that are permissible for you to eat when
they consider dead just like that without sacrifice is a summer
Cool. Well Gerrard the fish and the locusts. So the Hanafi see
this as the fish. This hadith is qualifying the universal nature of
the other Hadith, so they say only what is considered fish of the
ocean is halal. So what is shrimp then? Now the problem comes in
shrimp is that some of these old classical zoological sources in
Arabic and Islamic sources, they for some reason, consider the
prone the shrimp to be halal. I'm sorry to be a fish and hence
making it halal because it's a fish clearly Hello, right? Because
lobsters are definitely not halal in the Hanafi school, and neither
a crabs or octopus or anything like that. That is not a fish,
right? They're not halal. Whales are halal, even though they're not
a fish. They're a mammal, because there's another Hadith about the
hood, the Sahaba who have given this large, massive Hoot, they
call it right the umber. Right. So because of that many of the
orlimar mentioned that even in the Hanafi school that would be halal,
even though it's a mammal and not a proper fish. A shark is halal.
Because it is a fish a shark is a fish. So it's halal. You might say
what sharks eat others are the only human beings is not enough
human beings in the ocean to eat the other fish. Well, every fish
eats other fish, right? The larger fishes they just open their mouth
and take in smaller fish and the smaller fish eat the smaller
creatures. And eventually it gets down to plankton. It's a whole
pyramid. That's the food pyramid in the ocean. So that's not the
problem. Right? The let's talk about shrimp now. Now many of the
more recent the recent research shows that shrimp is not a fish.
It's a crustacean, right it's not efficient the crustacean and hence
it should not be halal according to that, but because there are so
many photos, right because there are so many factors. There are
mixed opinions about this, the majority opinion seemingly in the
Hanafi school of I mean, there are 10 fatwas from some of the major
Doublelift us you know the fatwa giving bodies and organizations in
America darlin, Moradabad, fatawa, himedia. All these places they say
it's halal. That's right although I personally do not eat it right.
I would say that anybody who wants to eat shrimp or prawn please go
go ahead and do so, because you have 10 fatwas minimum 10 fatwas
to go by, right, the precaution is if you know, the precaution is
that you abstain, right, because there are fatwas of certain
scholars who consider it to be unlawful and at least mcru For
that matter, but the majority of the famous ones they all consider
it halal, so, absolutely, it's permissible to eat Promes and
shrimp, but not lobster and crab for honeybees. Right for Shafi
isn't that it's completely fine
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