The Ruling on the Milk of the Male and Its Effect on Siblings
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: I hope you, Honorable Shaykh, will clarify the issue of the milk of the male and what is related to it?
Answer:
The milk of the male is the milk attributed to the man. If a man has, for example, two wives, and one of them breastfeeds a child, then this child becomes a brother to the children of this man from all his wives, even if their mother did not breastfeed him. If the father’s wife breastfeeds him, he becomes their brother, because the milk is attributed to the woman and to her husband. Yes. So, if your father’s wife breastfeeds a boy or a girl with the amount of breastfeeding that makes marriage forbidden, then this girl or this boy becomes your sibling, even if your mother did not breastfeed him, because he was breastfed from your father’s milk. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: I hope you, Honorable Shaykh, will clarify the issue of the milk of the male and what is related to it?
Answer:
The milk of the male is the milk attributed to the man. If a man has, for example, two wives, and one of them breastfeeds a child, then this child becomes a brother to the children of this man from all his wives, even if their mother did not breastfeed him. If the father’s wife breastfeeds him, he becomes their brother, because the milk is attributed to the woman and to her husband. Yes. So, if your father’s wife breastfeeds a boy or a girl with the amount of breastfeeding that makes marriage forbidden, then this girl or this boy becomes your sibling, even if your mother did not breastfeed him, because he was breastfed from your father’s milk. Yes.
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 28 — archive.org (51:51)
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