The Ruling on the Breastfeeding of a Pregnant Woman

The questioner:
And here is a woman who breastfed an infant, and she was pregnant for twenty days. Is that breastfeeding valid? And is the hadith that “what is forbidden by breastfeeding is forbidden by blood relation” applicable to breastfeeding?

The Shaykh:
A Swiss woman.

The questioner:
Four breastfed infants, and she was pregnant for twenty days. Is that breastfeeding valid, and is the hadith that “what is forbidden by breastfeeding is forbidden by blood relation” applicable to breastfeeding?

The Shaykh:
If milk comes to her and she breastfeeds a child five times, the child becomes her son, whether she is pregnant or not. If milk comes to her and she breastfeeds a child five times or more within the two-year period, it carries the ruling of breastfeeding, due to the generality of the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) whether she is pregnant or not, or whether she is a nursing mother, old, or young. Yes. The important thing is the presence of milk and the child drinking it five times. Yes.