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What is the reason that Hanafis cannot eat seafood?

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The Hanafi school restricts permissible seafood to only fish because the evidence they follow mentions the Prophet and his companions eating fish specifically, whereas most other scholars permit all sea creatures. hanafi madhab, seafood permissibility, fish, schools of thought, fiqh ruling, dietary laws https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jcmb1Ic2H_Y
Specifically in the Hanafi Madhab, only that which is considered to be fish within the sea will be permissible because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the companions were known to have eaten fish. Now the majority of scholars, they extend it, and based on various hadith as well, to say that it means anything within the sea, generally speaking. But the Hanafi Madhab specifically restricts it, based on these hadith that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ate fish only, to only being fish, which is that which is permissible.
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