What is the ruling on one who was breastfed by his grandmother when she was sixty years old?

The questioner : Well, Shaykh, I was breastfed by my mother. I have a second question, of course. My mother’s mother, who is my grandmother, was old at the time, perhaps sixty years old. She breastfed me for approximately one year, the first year of my life. So I do not know about this breastfeeding.

The Shaykh : The breastfeeding is valid. Huh? The breastfeeding is valid because it was more than five times in the year.

The questioner : More than five times, but I do not know if there was milk or not.

The Shaykh : If you are certain there is no milk, then it is nothing, because it means you were only sucking on the breast.

The questioner : I held the breast for a year, I mean, and I was small. The mother was famous at that time; she was the one who held me.

The Shaykh : Well, if it happened that you, may Allah keep you safe, were on the woman for a full year.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Certainly there is milk, certainly. You could die of hunger.

The questioner : Yes, he says: If I, for example, would cry, or I would want milk, she would take me and breastfeed me, and I would nurse, I mean. And she says: I do not know to the extent that I am alive.

The Shaykh : Yes, and what does she say, “I do not know”? Why?

The questioner : By Allah, I do not know if there is milk or not, but I take you, and you, I mean.

The Shaykh : And, may Allah keep you safe, as long as you lived a full year on her breast, certainly there is milk.

The questioner : On her breast and the mother’s breast, of course the mother, because she was busy. And if she came, for example, at the end of the day, she would breastfeed me. But this, I mean, from the beginning of the day until the evening, for example.

The Shaykh : Well, from the beginning of the day to the evening.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : I assume you want to stay from the beginning of the day to the end without breastfeeding.

The questioner : By Allah, Shaykh, I do not know honestly, because I was small, I do not know, I mean. And she, at the same time, says: I breastfed you for a year.

The Shaykh : That is it. If she said for a year and I breastfed you. Yes, your mother.

The questioner : I mean, my aunts are considered my sisters, and my mother is considered my sister.

The Shaykh : Yes, and your aunts’ daughters, you would be their maternal uncle.

The questioner : I mean, he would be their maternal uncle. May Allah reward you, Shaykh.

The Shaykh : May Allah keep you safe.

The questioner : And may Allah reward you.