Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Prawns and Shrimp Halal or Haram Answered

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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