Pursuit of Water game Lawful to you is water game and its use for food -- for the benefit of yourselves and those who travel, but forbidden is (the pursuit of) land game as long as you are in a state of Ihram.(5:96) Ibn Abbas said that: water game refers to what is taken from water while still alive Imam Malik bin Anas recorded that Jabir bin Abdullah said: Allahs Messenger sent an army towards the east coast and appointed Abu Ubaydah bin Al-Jarrah as their commander, and the army consisted of three hundred men, including myself. We marched on until we reached a place where our food was about to finish. Abu Ubaydah ordered us to collect all the food for our journey, and it was collected in two bags of dates. Abu Ubaydah kept on giving us our daily ration in small amounts from it, until it was exhausted. The share of each of us used to be one date only. I (one of the narrators from Jabir) said, How could one date suffice for you? Jabir replied: We came to know its value when even that finished. Jabir added: When we reached the seashore, we saw a huge fish which was like a small mountain. The army ate from it for eighteen days. Then Abu Ubaydah ordered that two of its ribs be affixed in the ground. Then he ordered that a she-camel be ridden, and it passed under the two ribs (forming an arch) without touching them. This Hadith was also collected in the Two Sahihs. Malik recorded that Abu Hurayrah said: A man asked Allahs Messenger, `O Allahs Messenger! We go to sea and carry little water with us. If we use it for Wudu, we get thirsty, so should we use seawater for Wudu? The Messenger of Allah said: Its water is pure and its dead are lawful. The two Imams, Ash-Shafii and Ahmad bin Hanbal, recorded this Hadith, along with the Four Sunan compilers. Al-Bukhari, At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Hibban graded it Sahih. This Hadith was also recorded from the Prophet by several other Companions.
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