The ruling on a grandmother over sixty breastfeeding and the bond of kinship between a child and his uncles

Question:
My mother breastfed her son’s son, and she is over sixty years old. Her milk had dried up, but then Allah caused it to flow in her breast, and she breastfed this child. Is this breastfeeding valid? And what is the ruling on this child’s bond of kinship with his uncles, aunts, and their descendants? My mother breastfed her son’s son, and she is over sixty years old. Her milk had dried up, but then Allah caused it to flow in her breast, and she breastfed this child. So, is this breastfeeding valid? And what is the ruling on this child’s bond of kinship with his uncles, aunts, and their descendants?

Answer:
If this child was within the two-year period and nursed five times from his grandmother—five times within the two-year period—then the correct of the scholars’ opinions is that the ruling of breastfeeding is established for him. This is due to the generality of the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): “Breastfeeding makes what birth makes forbidden,” and his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): “They are forbidden by breastfeeding what is forbidden by lineage.” It is also due to the generality of the saying of Allah the Exalted: This is general for the woman whose milk has flowed after it had stopped, and for the woman who has milk after giving birth. The verse is general, and the hadiths are general. So this child becomes her son, and he becomes a brother to her children, male and female, and an uncle to her children’s children, and so on. Yes.