If a person buys a woman’s milk and feeds it to a child, does she become his mother?

The questioner : What? Yes, what? What? You, long may you live, is your mother your mother?

The Shaykh : Yes, he says: If we buy a woman’s milk and feed it to the child, does she become his mother? Yes, if we feed it to him five times, she becomes his mother. And in that case, this is a matter to be careful about. We must know whose milk it is? Which woman? Because if we do not know, she may have breastfed other children, in which case they would be brothers to the child for whom this milk was bought, and we would not know. Therefore, we must know where this milk comes from? From so-and-so, the daughter of so-and-so.

The questioner : Is the criterion the bowl, Shaykh? Is the criterion the bowl or not?

The Shaykh : The criterion is the drinking. For example, if we feed him now, even a little, then leave the milk, and then after two or three hours feed him again, that is the second time, even if it is from the same bowl.