Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that once we participated in a battle, and we felt hungry, to the extent that we divided one or two dates among ourselves. Then we reached the seashore, and the sea threw out a large dead fish. People took pieces of its meat and fat as they liked; it was an example (the narrator says): I came to know that when those people presented themselves before the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him about it, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Do you have any part of it?" Nafi' narrates that when those people presented themselves before the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him about it, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Do you have any part of it?" The people replied: Yes! The people presented it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he ate from it.

It is narrated about Abdur Rahman bin Abu Hurairah that he asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them): Should I eat the fish that starts floating on the water (after dying)? So Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) replied: The fish floating in the water is considered dead. He stated that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Its (the sea's) water is pure and its dead (creature) is lawful."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Sarjis, may Allah be pleased with him, who was an elderly man, narrates that the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Allah Almighty has slaughtered the fish in the sea for the children of Adam."

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Every creature in the sea has been declared pure by Allah Almighty for the children of Adam."

Amr bin Dinar narrates that I have come to know (i.e., the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said): "Allah Almighty has made everything in the sea lawful to be slaughtered for the children of Adam."

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whatever animal the sea brings forth and throws out, you may eat it, but whatever you find dead (the narrator is unsure about these words here) floating on the surface of the water, do not eat it."

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "When the animal starts floating on the water, do not eat it, and when you find it after the water has receded, then eat it, and whatever you find on the shore, you may also eat it." The narrators have differed in transmitting the chain of this narration; some have transmitted it as a mawquf narration.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whatever the sea throws out or brings up to the surface, eat it; and whatever dies in the sea and floats on the water, do not eat it." Other narrators have transmitted this as a mawquf (companion's) narration.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that whatever fish the sea throws out or brings forth, eat it, and whatever you find floating on the water, do not eat it. This narration is mawquf and is correct in this regard.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Eat whatever the sea throws out, or whatever it leaves behind as it recedes, or whatever is hunted from it. But do not eat what dies in it and then floats on the water.