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I have an answer for this some with substantiation some without …

There is a hadith in Ibn Majah which states that two types of dead meat are permissible for consumption, locust and fish and two types of blood liver and spleen.

Common sense determines that the methods employed to catch fish and locust will be similar in two areas:

a) They are caught in nets in many numbers at a time
b) During the catching process many will be dead or die in the process, due to suffocation, immobility etc.

So according to common sense trying to slaughter a locust or fish in this respect will lead to a lot of waste food if we have to throw away the dead ones, also there will be a lot of time wasted sifting out dead from not. So on the provisor that these are permissible to eat it explains why they are not required for the rites of slaughter like other animals are.

The blood reasoning:

I have heard too that locust and fish have either limited blood or their blood does not penetrate their flesh like other animals therefore their meat is naturally clean.

The storyline reason (no reference sorry):

I have heard in an extended story that it is because when Ibrahim (AS) threw the knife up after thinking he killed his son the knife in mid flight slit a locust and when landed it went in the water and slit a fish and thereafter those animals were auto-halal. Nice but I’m not sure with this.

Another hadith mentions that salt water is pure and therefore creatures dwelling in it are clean. If purity of environment is the case then that makes sense too because there are some breeds of locust that spend all of their adults lives without touching the ground. Crop ends may be but not the ground.

Other than that … not everything that is allowed or not in Islam has been given us full reasoning for it. The primary reason for not eating pork is because Allah (SWT) forbade it, only the rationalisation of this injunction shows certain wisdoms in why, but they are not the reasons. In the same sense if some thing is halal for us to eat and a sahih hadith states as such that is REASON enough for us to follow accordingly. We know there is a reason for it, or may be more than one reason, but it may be the case that the reason has not be revealed to us by God.

wasnt i shouting the same thing from the rooftop