The ruling on doubt regarding the number of breastfeedings before and after the marriage contract
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, Allah has sent you. The questioner says: There was doubt about the number of breastfeedings of my brother’s wife by her husband. We asked an elderly woman, and she said she breastfed him, but I do not know the number. What should we do according to her timing?
Answer:
If this was before the marriage contract, the best course is to consider her as having reached the threshold and to avoid her to steer clear of doubt. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan an-Nasa'i 5711Sahih (Darussalam) He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This woman who came to the Messenger and informed him; the Messenger did not press her for details, asking how many breastfeedings it was, and so on. Rather, he ordered the suitor to leave her. He ordered the suitor to leave her. This is if it was before the marriage contract. As for if it was after the marriage contract, it does not separate them, because the default is the validity of the marriage contract unless the forbidden breastfeeding is established.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, Allah has sent you. The questioner says: There was doubt about the number of breastfeedings of my brother’s wife by her husband. We asked an elderly woman, and she said she breastfed him, but I do not know the number. What should we do according to her timing?
Answer:
If this was before the marriage contract, the best course is to consider her as having reached the threshold and to avoid her to steer clear of doubt. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.
دع ما يريبك إلى ما لا يريبك،Whoever avoids doubtful matters has protected his religion and his honor
من اتقى الشبهات قد استغرأ لدينه وعرضه
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