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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The rights of the wet nurse after five breastfeedings

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Question:
We move on to another letter sent by the questioner, Muhammad, who says he is a young man of twenty-five years old. He says he learned from his mother that he was breastfed by our neighbor in his childhood, and his mother estimates the number of feedings he received to be about five consecutive feedings, noting that our neighbor has moved from our village to another village. And he knows the address well. The question is: Honorable Shaykh, does this woman who breastfed me have any rights over me like the rights of my mother? And is it permissible for me to see her? I have confidence in her, and we are forbidden to her except for rights?

Answer:
So she has no rights over you, because she is not a mother by blood. If she is not a mother, except for gratitude, but the mahram (a relative one may not marry) status is established by breastfeeding, because it was five feedings in the Shari'ah, then you are a mahram to her. So if you reach out to her out of kindness, out of returning a favor, that is a good thing, but there is no obligation; she has no obligatory right over you. And.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/259 — archive.org (2:59)

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