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Is it permissible to eat snails that are thrown alive into boiling water for cooking, due to the impossibility of slaughtering them?

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Scholars have differed concerning the consumption of snails. The Malikis permitted it, while others forbade it. According to those who deem it permissible, there is no objection to slaughtering it by any method that expedites its death.

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