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The Ruling on Breastfeeding within the Two-Year Period

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Question:
The questioner, a woman, says: I breastfed a child more than five times with the intention that he would become a mahram (a relative one may not marry) to me and my daughters. What is the ruling on that breastfeeding within the two-year period?

Answer:
Yes, if you breastfed him within the two-year period five times or more, meaning five sucks where he sucks the breast and milk comes out for him, then he leaves it and returns to it and sucks it a second time, until he completes five, whether in one sitting or in multiple sittings where five breastfeedings were completed within the two-year period, the breastfed child becomes her son and the brother of her children, the brother of her children, and her mahrams become his mahrams for this child, and he becomes a mahram to her and her daughters, and the daughters of her children, by the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)
on account of fosterage as one is Mahram on account of consanguinityيحرم من الرضاعة ما يحرم من النسب،
Sahih Muslim 1445i
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما هي شروط الرضاع المحرم؟ وما هي أحكامه؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com

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