The Ruling on Eating Shark Meat

Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to eat the meat of a fish or a shark, even though it is a predator? And does a fish have intelligence like that of cattle, camels, and sheep? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
The correct view is that anything that does not live except in the sea is lawful. And Allah the Exalted said: . And based on the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the sea: "Its water is pure, and its dead are lawful." Therefore, any type of fish that does not live except in the sea is lawful to eat, and nothing is excluded from this according to the correct view. It does not require ritual slaughter. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Two dead things and two types of blood were made lawful for us." As for the two dead things, they are fish and locusts. As for the two types of blood, they are the liver and the spleen. So the dead of the sea is lawful. Ritual slaughter is only obligatory for land animals that do not live except on land; these are the ones that must be ritually slaughtered before being eaten.