I just wanted to know weather eating crab/lobseter are haraam to we muslims?
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Bhuran! I just wanted to know weather eating crab/lobseter are haraam to we
muslims?
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Answer:
Eating crabs lobsters
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 14:
It is He (Allah) Who
has subjected the sea to your service so that you may get fresh flesh from it
to eat and bring out of it articles of ornaments, which you wear.
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 83 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
A man asked the Messenger of Allah (saws): ‘O
Messenger of Allah (saws), we travel on the sea and take a small quantity of
water with us. If we use this for ablution, we would suffer from thirst. Can we
perform ablution with sea water?’ The Messenger of Allah (saws) replied: ‘Its
water is pure and (even) what dies in it is lawful food.’
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 5.648 Narrated by Jabir
We set out in the army of Al-Khabt and Abu
Ubaida was the commander of the troops. We were struck with severe hunger and the
sea threw out a dead fish the like of which we had never seen, and it
was called Al-'Anbar. We ate of it for
half a month. Abu Ubaida took (and fixed) one of its bones and a rider passed
underneath it (without touching it). (Jabir added:) Abu 'Ubaida said (to us),
"Eat (of that fish)." When we
arrived at
Whenever one wishes to determine whether an animal is
permissible or impermissible for the believers to consume, the principle law is
look in the list of what has been declared haraam by Allah and His Messenger
(saws); and if one does not find the name or type of the animal in the haraam
list, its flesh would be presumed halaal for the believers.
In light of the above clear guidance of the Messenger of
Allah (saws), every animal that predominantly lives in the sea would be
absolutely halaal for the believers to consume. Crabs, lobsters, prawns,
squids, etc. are creatures of the sea, thus its flesh would be deemed
absolutely halaal and lawful for the believers as food.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister