My question is that I was breastfed by my uncle’s wife, and the one who was breastfed with me was a girl, not a boy, and the family assumed that this girl is the one with whom marriage is forbidden for me.

The questioner : My question, O honorable Shaykh, is that I was breastfed by my uncle’s wife, and the one who was breastfed with me was a girl, not a boy, and the family assumed that this girl is the one with whom marriage is forbidden for me. Is this correct, or are all her daughters forbidden to me because their mother is considered my mother through breastfeeding?

The Shaykh : And upon the questioner be peace, and the mercy and blessings of Allah. We ask Allah the Exalted to make this program, which has been praised for its goodness and benefit to Muslims, a source of good. As for the answer to his question: if the breastfeeding mentioned was five feedings within the two years before weaning, then the woman who breastfed him becomes his mother, and her husband becomes his father. Accordingly, all the children of this woman, whether boys or girls, are his siblings. This includes the girl who was breastfed from her milk, the one before her, and the one after her. Whoever is a child of the woman who breastfed him, whether male or female, is a sibling to the breastfed child. Likewise, the children of his husband are his siblings. If they are from her, they are his siblings from both father and mother. If they are from another wife, they are his siblings from the father. Thus, we know that if this woman who breastfed him had children from a previous husband, they would be his siblings from the mother. And if his current wife, who is in his possession, has children from another man, they would be his siblings from the father. And if his current wife has children from him, they are his siblings from both mother and father.

The questioner : Now, in his second question, he says, and this is the most important one.