Ibn ‘Abbas was riding when locusts passed by him, so he struck them. It was said to him: "You killed game while you are in the state of ihram?" He said: "It is only from the game of the sea."

[6832] Muhammad ibn ‘Uzayr al-Ayli narrated to us, Salamah ibn Rawh narrated to us, from ‘Uqayl ibn Khalid, he said: Ibn Shihab said: I heard Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyib mentioning regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted: "Lawful to you is game from the sea and its food," and Sa‘id used to say: The game of the sea is what is eaten of it [when it is found] drowned.

His saying, the Exalted: "and its food as a provision for you"

[The First Aspect]

[6833] Abu Sa‘id al-Ashajj narrated to us, Abu Khalid al-Ahmar narrated to us, he said: I heard Sulayman al-Taymi, from Abu Mijlaz, from Ibn ‘Abbas regarding His saying: "and its food," he said: That which it casts out, meaning dead.

[6834] Abu Sa‘id al-Ashajj narrated to us, ‘Abdah narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn ‘Amr, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah regarding His saying: "Lawful to you is game from the sea and its food as a provision for you," he said: That which it casts out dead, that is its food. It was narrated from Zayd ibn Thabit, ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Umar, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Abu Salamah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, ‘Ikrimah, Ibrahim al-Nakha‘i, and al-Hasan the like of that.

And the Second Aspect:

[6835] Ahmad ibn Sinan narrated to us, ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us, from Sufyan, from Khusayf, from Sa‘id ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ‘Abbas regarding "and its food as a provision for you," he said: The salted fish that they take as provisions.

[6836] Muhammad ibn ‘Aziz narrated to us, Salamah narrated to me, from ‘Uqayl ibn Khalid, he said: And Ibn Shihab said: I heard Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyib mentioning regarding the saying of Allah "and its food": The salted fish.

And the Third Aspect:

[6837] I read to Muhammad ibn al-Fadl, Muhammad ibn ‘Ali narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Muzahim narrated to us, from Bukayr ibn Ma‘ruf, from Muqatil ibn Hayyan regarding His saying: "and its food," meaning: its salted [meat]. And it is said it means: what the sea casts out. And it is said: its food is its fresh [meat] and its salted [meat].

[6838] Abu Zur‘ah narrated to us, Abu Thabit Muhammad ibn ‘Ubayd Allah narrated to us, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Muhammad narrated to us, from Ibn Harmalah, from Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyib, he said: The food of the sea is what it casts out alive, or that which the water has receded from and it has died.