Ruling on washing eggs

4-4-2013 | IslamWeb

Question:

Why are chicken eggs not washed before they are cooked?
Answer:

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There is nothing wrong with washing chicken eggs before cooking them for hygienic reasons so as to avoid anything that may be unclean, yet it is not obligatory. The discharge that covers chicken eggs is clean according to the majority of scholars, especially from chickens that were fed on pure fodder; since it is from a pure and eatable animal.

The Maaliki scholar Ibn Farhoon may Allaah have mercy upon him said: “Eggs should be washed before breaking, but if they are not washed there is no harm.” In fact, eggs should be washed because of the possibility that they might be from hens whose fodder is impure. Jurists label such animals as “Jallaalah”; i.e. any animal fed on impurities. Held

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