What is Halal (or Haram) to Eat in Maliki Fiqh? -Mufti Abu Layth

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Listen, the school of Medina only declares very few things haram in terms of food. Everything in the sea is halal. And by the school of Medina, I mean the city of the prophet. After after the prophet, the companions, the successors, and their successors leading up to Imam Malik and his school. This school declares all creatures of the sea to be halal.

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Including amphibians like crocodiles, tortoises, and stuff like if you Not saying you have to eat them, but they're not haram. Including predatory beasts like things like wolves, lions, tigers, all of these things. Nothing is actually haram like that. Although people generally don't eat lions and stuff like this, but they're not haram. The only thing haram is in the verse of the Quran as al-Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, the great legend.

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Maliki scholar from Muslim Spain almost 900 years ago writes in the verse "Qul la ajidu muharraman ala ta'imin yat'amuhu." When Allah says, "Say, I find nothing haram for somebody who wishes to eat except" And those few things, lahm al-khinzir. Pork has been declared haram. Dead animals, so animals that have already been killed. "Aw all those ma uhilla bihi lighayrillahi." Those sacrificed animals that are sacrificed for pagan gods and things like that.

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So, these kind of things, that's it really. And it mentioned blood, but that's because the the pagan ritual was to drink blood as a as a kind of ritualistic offering. So, these things were declared haram. Other than that, things are not actually haram, okay?

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{What is Halal (or Haram) to Eat in Maliki Fiqh? -Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {5},
  date = {2018-05-22},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmqvtix4isk/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}