Are Prawns Halal?
The permissibility of eating prawns or otherwise [according to the Hanafi Fuqaha] depends on whether they are considered from the fish family or not.
Many scholars have considered prawns as fish. On the other hand the contemporary zoologists do not consider prawns as fish as they do not have a spine..
Normally, the ruling of such issues are not based on technical research rather it is based upon the understanding of the common people, and we have learnt that according to the understanding of the scholars of the Arabic language prawns are considered fish.
Moreover, according to the other 3 schools of Fiqh, to eat prawns is totally permissible which makes a leniency in the ruling.
Just to clarify according to the other three schools of Fiqh (i.e. Shafi’i, Maliki and Hanbali), to eat prawns is totally permissible, which makes a leniency in the ruling. Therefore it is permissible to eat prawns, but to refrain and abstain is always advisable.
Therefore it is permissible to eat prawns, but to refrain and abstain is always advisable.
By: Ustadh Asif Iqbal
Some other information in regards to Prawns
The main difference between Fish and Prawn is that Fish identified by its lack of backbone, whereas Prawn identified by its shell and lack of spines.
A prawn is a crustacean. Crustacean (incl. prawns, shrimp, crabs, …) and Hexapoda together form a monophyletic group. Crustaceans are arthropods and are therefore much more closely related to insects, molluscs and spiders than to any lineage that we would call fish.
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