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Answer: It will be Ḥalāl to eat as it did not die a natural death, but the cause of its death was the bird.
Question: After buying a big fish, when it was cut into slices, a small fish came out of its stomach; can we eat that small fish?
Answer: If a fish was found in the belly of another fish and it is still fresh, it can be eaten and on the other hand, if the fish has decomposed then it cannot be eaten. The jurists رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی has said, it is written in ‘Muḥīṭ Burĥānī’ that a fish which is found in the belly of another fish which is caught may also be eaten since the first fish was caught dead and the second fish died due to insufficient space (i.e., it suffocated in the belly of the other fish).
This issue proves that if a fresh fish is found in the belly of a Ṭāfī fish, it will be eaten, and if the found fish is also Ṭāfī fish then it will not be eaten. It is reported by Imām Muhammad رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه that there is no harm in eating the fish which was vomited out by a dog, but the fish’s condition must not be changed (rotten), because there is a cause which resulted in its death. (Muḥīṭ Burĥānī, vol. 6, pp. 449)
(Ṭāfī – It implies that dead fish that floats upside down in the water after it has died a natural death rather than being killed.)
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