What is the ruling on eating the porcupine?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on eating the porcupine? Because there are people in Morocco who eat it, claiming its health benefits.
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement regarding the porcupine; there is disagreement regarding it and the fox. The Maliki school is the most lenient of people regarding foods; they permit eating the porcupine and even, I think, domestic donkeys. They argue based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-An'am 6:145] They are the most lenient of people regarding foods. The Hanafi school is the most lenient of people regarding drinks. The Hanafi school is the most lenient of people regarding drinks, and therefore they permit wine. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on eating the porcupine? Because there are people in Morocco who eat it, claiming its health benefits.
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement regarding the porcupine; there is disagreement regarding it and the fox. The Maliki school is the most lenient of people regarding foods; they permit eating the porcupine and even, I think, domestic donkeys. They argue based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Say, "I do not find within that which was revealed to me [anything] forbidden to one who would eat it unless it be a dead animal or blood spilled out or the flesh of swine - for indeed, it is impure
قُل لَّا أَجِدُ فِي مَا أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ مُحَرَّمًا عَلَىٰ طَاعِمٍ يَطْعَمُهُ إِلَّا أَن يَكُونَ مَيْتَةً أَوْ دَمًا مَّسْفُوحًا أَوْ لَحْمَ خِنزِيرٍ فَإِنَّهُ رِجْسٌ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم أكل القنفذ؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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