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The fish

السمك

God made lawful the game of the sea and its food, provision for you and for travellers; He tested the Sabbath town whose fish came to them openly on their Sabbath and came not the day they kept it not; and from the sea you draw ornaments and eat fresh flesh.

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Global / Diaspora

Animals and mercyWater and animals

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 1428· Qur'an 16:14· Qur'an 35:12· Qur'an 5:96· Qur'an 7:163

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Hunting (sayd)· Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Zayd ibn Aslam· The fish of al-Khidr· Hawam (creeping things: their sale, eating and killing)· Hirr (the cat: purity, sale, damage and eating)· Pearl and coral

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
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Practices, the Islamic year, festivals, food, dress and music by region. Related

Muwatta, Book of Hunting (sayd)

The Book of Hunting, eleventh book of the Muwatta in Yahya ibn Yahya's recension (ed. Ma'ruf 1997): 27 reports (1414–1440) in seven babs, PDF pp. 635–644 of volume 1, from game killed by a stone or blunt shaft through trained dogs and birds, sea game, fanged beasts, and hides and carrion.