The Ruling on Breastfeeding and Its Effect on Prohibition of Marriage
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner asks about breastfeeding. He says: I am a woman who breastfed my sister’s son. Will my husband be his father, will my husband’s mother be his grandmother, and will his sisters be his aunts?
Answer:
If the conditions of breastfeeding are met, meaning if it was within two years and consisted of five breastfeedings or more, then he becomes your son through breastfeeding, and your husband becomes his father through breastfeeding. You become prohibited to him through breastfeeding, just as his brothers and sisters are. Whoever is prohibited by lineage is prohibited to the breastfed child. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “What is prohibited by breastfeeding is prohibited by lineage,” along with the saying of Allah the Exalted:[An-Nisa 4:23] He calls them your mothers and your sisters. Breastfeeding calls them your sisters.
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner asks about breastfeeding. He says: I am a woman who breastfed my sister’s son. Will my husband be his father, will my husband’s mother be his grandmother, and will his sisters be his aunts?
Answer:
If the conditions of breastfeeding are met, meaning if it was within two years and consisted of five breastfeedings or more, then he becomes your son through breastfeeding, and your husband becomes his father through breastfeeding. You become prohibited to him through breastfeeding, just as his brothers and sisters are. Whoever is prohibited by lineage is prohibited to the breastfed child. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “What is prohibited by breastfeeding is prohibited by lineage,” along with the saying of Allah the Exalted:
your [milk] mothers who nursed you
وَأُمَّهَاتُكُمُ اللَّاتِي أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ
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