قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ الْحِيتَانُ مَا يُؤْكَلُ مِنْهَا فَقَالَ مَا كَانَ لَهُ قِشْرٌ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ مَا تَقُولُ فِي الْكَنْعَتِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِأَكْلِهِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ لَهُ قِشْرٌ فَقَالَ لِي بَلَى وَ لَكِنَّهَا سَمَكَةٌ سَيِّئَةُ الْخُلُقِ تَحْتَكُّ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَ إِذَا نَظَرْتَ فِي أَصْلِ أُذُنِهَا وَجَدْتَ لَهَا قِشْراً .
Translation
Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Ali, fro Hammad Bin Usman who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you! The fishes, what can we eat from these?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Whatever had scales for it’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! What are you<sup>asws</sup> saying regarding the Sea bass. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with eating it’. I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘But it does not have scales for it’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘Yes, but it is a fish of evil creation. It goes beneath everything, and when you look in the roots of its ears, you will find scales on it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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