The ruling on eating the octopus that lives in the sea
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Question:
He says: What is the ruling on eating the octopus that is in the sea? What is it? The octopus, he says.
Answer:
I do not know the octopus, but it does not live in the sea.[Al-Ma'idah 5:96] Whatever does not live except in the sea is lawful without exception, according to the correct view. As for what lives on land and in the sea, the side of prohibition prevails, so it is not lawful except by ritual slaughter.
He says: What is the ruling on eating the octopus that is in the sea? What is it? The octopus, he says.
Answer:
I do not know the octopus, but it does not live in the sea.
Lawful to you is game from the sea
أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ صَيْدُ الْبَحْرِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2435 -2802] حكم أكل الأخطبوط الذي يعيش في البحر - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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