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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Breastfeeding from a woman whose child died but whose milk remained

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The questioner:
The questioner says: A woman breastfed her son, and then he died before the age of two.

The Shaykh:
A woman of Aswad?

The questioner:
She breastfed her son, and then he died before the age of two.

The Shaykh:
The child died, you mean? Yes, that is correct.

The questioner:
And six months after his death, her daughter gave birth to a son, and she breastfed him for three or four months. What is the ruling on this breastfeeding in terms of prohibition?

The Shaykh:
Repeat the question.

The questioner:
A woman breastfed her son, and then he died before the age of two. Six months after his death, her daughter gave birth to a son, and she breastfed him for three or four months. What is the ruling on this breastfeeding in terms of prohibition?

The Shaykh:
In terms of what? Prohibition. Yes, it is forbidden. As long as milk remains in her, as long as milk remains in her, and she breastfed a child from it five times or more within the two-year period, then he becomes her son through breastfeeding. The important thing is the presence of the milk. Even if her child had been dead for six months, as long as the milk is present and she breastfed from it, it is forbidden. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/126 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (28:15)

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