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Seafood school map
A seafood word is often a school question, not a yes. Muttoo files named fatwas and leaves blank cells blank. Scallops now have a named Birmingham fatwa and a SANHA page. Oysters carry a four-school grid. Clams have their own named Birmingham cite. Shrimp is a Hanafi-internal split. Cockles stay uncopied — no named cockle fatwa URL.
Two-minute seafood check
- Is it a fish? Catfish and eel are cited as fish, including in Hanafi. Breading and a shared fryer are shop questions.
- Then the school split. Shrimp: two named Hanafi fatwas disagree. Lobster and crab: Hanafi not-fish (Faraz Rabbani) vs Shafiʿi aquatic game vs islamqa.info 1919. Calamari, octopus, mussels: Hanafi not samak. Follow the scholar you follow.
- What we did not copy. Oyster, clam, scallop, conch, whelk, uni. Sister shape is not a second fatwa. A crab stick is usually surimi.
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Halal
Catfish
A scaleless freshwater fish. Darul Iftaa Leicester (Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam): catfish is a fish, so it is lawful in the Hanafi school as well as Shafi…
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Halal
Eel
AskMufti (Mufti Siraj Desai): eel falls under fish in Hanafi fiqh, so the animal is lawful as samak. Unagi sauce is soy, sugar and mirin — mirin is a …
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Disputed
Shrimp
Two named Hanafi fatwas disagree on whether shrimp/prawn is fish (samak). Darul Iftaa Leicester (Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam) permits prawns as fish by Ar…
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Disputed
Lobster
A crustacean, not a scaled fish. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: lobster was not considered fish by the Arabs, so it is not permitted (Shaykh Faraz …
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Disputed
Crab
A crustacean, not a scaled fish. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: crab was not considered fish by the Arabs, so it is not permitted (Shaykh Faraz Rab…
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Disputed
Crawfish
A freshwater crustacean. Named positions disagree. Darul Iftaa Birmingham: some Hanafi scholars class crayfish as fish (permissible), others do not. i…
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Disputed
Calamari
Squid, usually fried. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: calamari/squid is not samak (AskMufti; Darul Fiqh — no spine, gill, fins), so not permitted. i…
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Disputed
Octopus
A cephalopod, not a scaled fish. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: octopus is not samak (Darul Fiqh / Shaykh Faraz Adam), so not permitted. islamqa.in…
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Disputed
Mussels
A bivalve. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: mussels are not samak (Darul Fiqh), so not permitted. islamqa.info: all food from the sea is permissible.…
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Disputed
Oysters
The bivalve, not oyster sauce and not oyster mushroom. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: oysters are not fish, so not permitted (Darul Iftaa Birmingha…
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Disputed
Scallops
The adductor muscle of a bivalve, not a scaled fish. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: Darul Iftaa Birmingham (Tosir Miah) names scallop — similar to …
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Disputed
Clams
A bivalve. Named positions disagree. Hanafi: Darul Iftaa Birmingham names clams with crabs, squid and lobster as not-fish. islamqa.info 1919: all food…
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Unverified
Uni
Sea urchin gonad. Not scaled fish. No named uni fatwa URL is on file, so Muttoo does not auto-copy the shrimp split or call it haram. Served raw, ofte…
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Source-dependent
Surimi
Minced white fish formed and flavoured to look like crab. The base is usually pollock or similar — a fish. Starch, egg white, sugar, flavour and colou…
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Source-dependent
Fish sauce
Fermented fish and salt. Fish is generally treated as halal; added wine, hydrolysed protein or unspecified flavourings on cheap bottles are not.
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Disputed
Krill oil
Oil from Antarctic krill, a crustacean. Cited Hanafi fatwas disagree with each other (one treats krill like prawns, one rejects it as not-fish). Shafi…
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Disputed
Crocodile
A land-water predator with fangs. islamqa.info 1919: the correct view is that eating crocodile is not allowed. islamqa.info 146155 notes a difference …
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Haram
Frog
The animal, including frogs’ legs. IslamQA.info (Ibn Jibreen) states frogs and their body parts are haram. Darul Ifta Birmingham: it is not permissibl…
A procedure for reading a pack - not a product certification and not a fatwa. See the methodology.