Rulings on Breastfeeding and the Siblinghood of the Breastfed Child
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: Your Eminence, father, there is a young man who was breastfed by my mother from her breast. Do my sisters become his sisters, and is he a mahram (a relative one may not marry) to them? And are his sisters considered my sisters, and am I a mahram to them? Please inform us and guide us to the truth, may you be rewarded.
Answer:
If your mother breastfed him five times or more within the first two years, he is a brother to you and to your sisters, to all her children. If she breastfed him five times or more within the first two years, before he completed the two years, he is a brother to you all, a brother to all her children and to all the children of her husband. As for his brothers, no, his brothers, no, only he. As for his brothers, if they were not breastfed by other women, but only he who was breastfed by your mother becomes a brother to you only. If the breastfeeding was five times or more before he was weaned, as long as it was within the two years, he becomes a brother to you, a brother to you and your siblings, and to all your mother’s children from this husband and others, and to the children of this husband as well, he becomes a brother to them through their father.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: Your Eminence, father, there is a young man who was breastfed by my mother from her breast. Do my sisters become his sisters, and is he a mahram (a relative one may not marry) to them? And are his sisters considered my sisters, and am I a mahram to them? Please inform us and guide us to the truth, may you be rewarded.
Answer:
If your mother breastfed him five times or more within the first two years, he is a brother to you and to your sisters, to all her children. If she breastfed him five times or more within the first two years, before he completed the two years, he is a brother to you all, a brother to all her children and to all the children of her husband. As for his brothers, no, his brothers, no, only he. As for his brothers, if they were not breastfed by other women, but only he who was breastfed by your mother becomes a brother to you only. If the breastfeeding was five times or more before he was weaned, as long as it was within the two years, he becomes a brother to you, a brother to you and your siblings, and to all your mother’s children from this husband and others, and to the children of this husband as well, he becomes a brother to them through their father.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,
Source
فتاوى المسجد الحرام (شعبان ١٤١٧ هـ) - ٧ — archive.org (41:27)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.