The Number of Breastfeedings That Prohibit Marriage

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Question:
The questioner says: What is the ruling on doubt regarding the number of breastfeedings, and how many breastfeedings are forbidden?

Answer:
The number of breastfeedings that are forbidden is five sucks, where the milk is sucked in each suck, and the milk flows to him and he swallows it, then he sucks it a second time, and so on until he completes five sucks, whether in one sitting or in several sittings. This is the threshold for breastfeeding, based on the hadith of Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), who said:

Narrated Yusuf bin Mahik: I was in the house of `Aisha, the mother of the Believers. She said, "This revelation: "Nay, but the Hour is their appointed time (for their full recompense); and the Hour will be more previous and most bitter." (54.46) was revealed to Muhammad at Mecca while I was a playfull little girl."

كان فيما أنزل على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم عشر رضعات

Sahih al-Bukhari 4876

known breastfeedings that are forbidden, then that was abrogated by five known breastfeedings that are forbidden

معلومات يحرمن ثم نسخ ذلك بخمس رضعات معلومات يحرمن

And a breastfeeding (radh'ah) is a suck, as in the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him):

A single suck does not make it forbidden, nor two sucks, nor a single gulp, nor two gulps

لا تحرم المصه ولا المصتان ولا الاملاجه ولا الاملاجتان

Sahih Ibn Hibban 17:14

. Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (081) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1436-03-02] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (26:45)

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