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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on a husband nursing from his wife's breast

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Question:
A questioner says that while he was playing with his wife, he nursed from her breast, and she had milk in it. What is the ruling?

Answer:
This is frivolous. It does not carry a legal ruling in the sense that it establishes a prohibition. No, because nursing establishes a prohibition only within specific legal limits: it must occur within the first two years, and it must be five nursing sessions or more. As for this nursing, which is the nursing of an adult, it does not establish a prohibition. The nursing of an adult does not establish a prohibition according to the majority of scholars. It does not establish a prohibition. The case of Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hudhayfah, with Suhaibah bint Suhayl, is a specific case with no general application. It has no general application; it is a specific case, a case of individual application, with no general application. The majority of scholars hold that the nursing of an adult does not establish a prohibition. However, this falls under the category of frivolity, so he should leave it off because it is frivolous. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-088-مفهود العبادة في الإسلام|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:27:56)

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