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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