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Selling pork

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Is it Haram to sell pork meat among other goods. I understand very well that eating pork is Haram. But I did not find any thing in Qur'an and Sunna about selling pork. I understand the making, producing, selling, carrying alcohol is Haram.

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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu 'alyhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

Yes, it is forbidden to sell pork just as it is forbidden to eat it. There is no difference between selling it and eating it. Allaah Says (what means): {Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maytatah (the dead animals - cattle-beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine.}[Quran 5:3] This prohibition covers both its eating and its selling. It is narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas and his father, that Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: “May Allaah curse the Jews. Allaah has forbidden to them animal fat, so they sold it and ate its price. If Allaah forbids for some people to eat something, He (also) forbids its price for them.”

Allaah Knows best.

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