Is Shark Halal?
Edited By Staff Writer, Halal Incorp
An interesting question is being asked about whether shark meat is Halal or not. It’s not something that I have come across personally but there are people interested in sea food and shark in particular.
Islam Question & Answer Discusses Whether Sharks Are Halal Or Not:
“Sharks are halal, because of what is mentioned above and because of the general meaning of the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him): “Two kinds of ‘dead meat’ and two kinds of blood have been permitted to you. The two kinds of ‘dead meat’ are fish and locusts, and the two kinds of blood are the liver and spleen.” Narrated by Ibn Majah (3314); classed as sahih by al-Albani.
The fact that the shark is a predator does not cancel that. The prohibition on every predator that has fangs applies only to land animals that are predators. As for the predators of the sea, this ruling does not apply to them.
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymin (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
It cannot be said that for whatever land animal is haram, its counterpart in the sea is also haram, because the sea is something separate, even though there are animals in it which have fangs with which they attack other animals, such as sharks… The point is that there are animals [in the sea] that kill and eat others, yet despite that they are halal. End quote from ash-Sharh al-Mumti‘ (15.34).
The scholars of the Standing Committee were asked:
Are sharks halal or haram?
They replied: All fish are halal, sharks and others, because of the general meaning of the verse in which Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning): { Lawful to you is game from the sea and its food } [al-Ma’idah 5:96] and the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him): “Its water is a means of purification and its ‘dead meat’ [animals that died without being slaughtered in the prescribed manner] is permissible.””(Fatawa al-Lajnah ad-Da’imah 22/320).
And Allah knows best.”
So to summarise according to Islam Question & Answer Shark is Halal as per the information above.
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