The issue of breastfeeding Salim, the freed slave of 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with them both).
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The questioner : Salim, the freed slave of Hudhayfah, regarding breastfeeding.
The Shaykh : There is no disagreement in your guidance on this; it is not said to be a specific incident, nor is it said to have a general application.
The questioner : What is said?
The Shaykh : It is said that if the circumstances that existed in that story are present in another case.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It takes on the same ruling as the first story.
The questioner : Are there any examples?
The questioner : What is the answer, because it seems there is a contradiction between this story and the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) permission for Hudhayfah's wife to breastfeed him and his entering her home, and his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):?
The Shaykh : All right, explain the point of contradiction yourself, so that I can then remove that contradiction.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, ... the story is known to everyone, praise be to Allah ... I say that if this young man, who is Salim, enters and some things happen and the husband becomes jealous, the contradiction in my view is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says: excuse me .
The Shaykh : This is not a contradiction, this is a repetition!
The questioner : The contradiction is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) specified in this hadith that the prohibition of breastfeeding occurs in childhood, when the intestines are opened and the bones grow, whereas in that story the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited it while he was an adult.
The Shaykh : "Stay in your place." What type of usuli indication can be attributed to the Messenger's specification? Is it the indication of specificity, generality, absoluteness, restriction, or what else can be said?
The questioner : The indication of specificity.
The questioner : Breastfeeding is prohibited when the intestines are opened and the bones grow.
The Shaykh : Is this specificity?
The questioner : Generality.
The Shaykh : Or what else can be said?
The questioner : The indication of specificity is that the child in this hadith, O Shaykh, is not prohibited from breastfeeding except what opens the intestines and grows the bones, and it is not prohibited except in childhood.
The Shaykh : And is this text general or specific?
The questioner : General in childhood.
The Shaykh : General.
The questioner : General, O Shaykh, general in childhood.
The Shaykh : All right, which general text can be subject to specification?
The questioner: Perhaps.
The Shaykh : Is this general text subject to this possibility?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, the problem is resolved.
The questioner : So this is a general text that is specified.
The Shaykh : Ah, but it is said regarding the specified case, for any adult man.
The questioner : For one who is in the aforementioned state.
The Shaykh : This is what we said earlier.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of yourself.
The questioner : It seems there is an addition in the hadith; I do not remember what the addition is, meaning, clarify this thing you mentioned, I do not know if you remember it?
The Shaykh : No, I do not remember, yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : In which era?
The questioner : O Shaykh, examples of the rule mentioned by the brother Wafi' so that ...
The Shaykh : A specific incident?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, a specific incident.
The questioner : O Shaykh, must all the conditions be that he is a freed slave?
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not a condition. Let us suppose, for example, two brothers who are disbelievers lived together for a long time, one was single and the other was married, and the people did not prohibit or permit it. The married couple became Muslim, but that one remained single, yet he could not find a way to live alone, so he was compelled to live with the family he had lived with for a long time. In that case, it is said to the husband: tell your wife to breastfeed your brother so that this brother becomes her son through breastfeeding. This is an example, I mean.
The questioner : All right, O Shaykh, what is said regarding 'A'ishah?
The Shaykh : What is said regarding what?
The questioner : Regarding the Lady 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her)?
The Shaykh : What is there?
The questioner : When she wanted a man to enter her home, she ordered her sister to breastfeed him.
The Shaykh : A man? She acted according to the hadith.
The questioner : She benefited from the story of Salim.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is the hadith she acted upon.
The questioner : Is this another exception to the generality? Is it the same story or is it similar to it?
The Shaykh : How do you know it is similar or not? I mean, the following question is directed to you now.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you imagine that the Lady 'A'ishah would deny the general rule?
The questioner : She does not deny it.
The Shaykh : I mean, is she ignorant of it?
The questioner : I do not think so, she is not ignorant of it.
The Shaykh : No, seriously, if it must be the case, she must have an excuse that justifies her applying the story of Salim to the case.
The questioner : Even though the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
The Shaykh : Because it is not necessary that we know the reason. It is mentioned in the hadith of Salim that the Mothers of the Believers differed with the Lady 'A'ishah, considering it specific to her, while she considered it not specific.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So if she considered, or to put it correctly, benefited from this hadith which she did not consider specific to that incident, contrary to her co-wives, she applies it in matters where she sees a benefit in doing so.
The questioner : O Shaykh, of course, there must be breastfeeding and milk, or not?
The Shaykh : It relies on breastfeeding.
The questioner : I mean, because he is older than the age of breastfeeding.
The Shaykh : This is a self-evident matter; breastfeeding is necessary.
The questioner : It seems that if someone from the general public hears this, they do not take it seriously. If 'A'ishah wanted someone to enter her home in this sense, she ordered her sister to breastfeed him, as if it were a job, I mean.
The Shaykh : What do you mean by "if she wanted"? I mean, the whole market?
The questioner : So...
The Shaykh : No, no, the matter is as I told you. This understanding, my brother, always represents and indicates that the rulings of the Shari'ah are not taken from a single text, but from a collection of texts. Can a Muslim imagine that the Lady 'A'ishah wanted to let all people enter her home? That is not reasonable. It is not reasonable for the wife of any of us. What is the comparison between her and the Lady 'A'ishah, the Mother of the Believers? If it must be the case, we must imagine that she had a benefit in letting in the one she wanted to let in. So it is not permissible to generalize what comes to mind merely from the narration of the text.
The questioner : How many sucklings did she breastfeed the adult until?
The Shaykh : Five, as is customary.
The questioner : Like the child.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed. Actually, I am not recalling a suitable example for the one who said it now, yes?
The questioner : The woman who vowed to strike the head of the Messenger of Allah with the hand drum.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is correct. This is an example.
The questioner : And the Ansari woman who is mentioned in the beginning of Surat al-Mumtahanah, to whom the Messenger of Allah permitted mourning, whose neighbors were pleased with her.
The Shaykh : Yes, because of her neighbors.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah.
The questioner : In Sahih al-Bukhari
The questioner : ... there was a fabricated hadith.
The Shaykh : What happens today between mothers and sons cannot be permitted in such an exceptional case. I mean, what does the woman equal? We see, unfortunately, some women on the roadside looking at the milk-filled breast, which is what incitesThe Shaykh : the one like my story, and she puts what? Her son, and she breastfeeds him. And from this, we must imagine the breastfeeding of an adult man by this woman. If it must be the case, we must imagine the breastfeeding directly. She only shows the nipple, but the head of the breast, so he sucks without seeing anything of her breast, because this breast is not permissible for the son, for the son who is her son and from her husband's lineage, because this is an 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered) for him, let alone for one who has not yet become her son. But if the matter is a matter of solving a problem and necessity, as we mentioned earlier, and the matter is as it is said: necessities permit the prohibited, but with the rule that necessity is measured by its extent. What is intended? The intended thing is giving this adult man the milk of this woman to remove that problem.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, does this happen merely by her showing the head of her breast and him sucking until he is satisfied?
The questioner: Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh : And five, what? Five sucklings. This is one method, and the second method is said regarding that which you named, and that is enough, we do not repeat what you named it. It is said to him: if a wet nurse, for some reason, poured from her breast into a container, and we do not say in a cup, in the same artificial wet nurses.
The questioner : Breastfeeding.
The Shaykh : This wet nurse, ah, and this boy came and drank from this milk, and five satchling sats, what do you think this person will be? That he became her son or not? Without a doubt, he became her son because he suckled from her milk. And this is in reality derived from an important legal and Shari'ah perspective, which is that the Shari'ah does not place much emphasis on the means, as long as the objectives are achieved by any other means, unless that means is prohibited. So at that time, this boy suckled directly from the mother or suckled from this breastfeeding where her milk was poured into it, so he is her son, without a doubt and without any doubt. And it is more preferable that this act be done with the adult man who is to be breastfed from the woman's milk, rather than him sucking the milk directly from her breast.
The questioner : As long as the means is found.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : As long as the means is found.
The Shaykh : That is it.
The Shaykh : There is no disagreement in your guidance on this; it is not said to be a specific incident, nor is it said to have a general application.
The questioner : What is said?
The Shaykh : It is said that if the circumstances that existed in that story are present in another case.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It takes on the same ruling as the first story.
The questioner : Are there any examples?
The questioner : What is the answer, because it seems there is a contradiction between this story and the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) permission for Hudhayfah's wife to breastfeed him and his entering her home, and his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
Breastfeeding does not establish a prohibition except when it has split the intestines and raised the bone.
لا يحرم من الرضاع إلا من فتق الأمعاء و نشز العظمThe Shaykh : All right, explain the point of contradiction yourself, so that I can then remove that contradiction.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, ... the story is known to everyone, praise be to Allah ... I say that if this young man, who is Salim, enters and some things happen and the husband becomes jealous, the contradiction in my view is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says:
It does not establish a prohibition
لا يحرمHe enters the state of ihram.
يحرمThe Shaykh : This is not a contradiction, this is a repetition!
The questioner : The contradiction is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) specified in this hadith that the prohibition of breastfeeding occurs in childhood, when the intestines are opened and the bones grow, whereas in that story the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited it while he was an adult.
The Shaykh : "Stay in your place." What type of usuli indication can be attributed to the Messenger's specification? Is it the indication of specificity, generality, absoluteness, restriction, or what else can be said?
The questioner : The indication of specificity.
The questioner : Breastfeeding is prohibited when the intestines are opened and the bones grow.
The Shaykh : Is this specificity?
The questioner : Generality.
The Shaykh : Or what else can be said?
The questioner : The indication of specificity is that the child in this hadith, O Shaykh, is not prohibited from breastfeeding except what opens the intestines and grows the bones, and it is not prohibited except in childhood.
The Shaykh : And is this text general or specific?
The questioner : General in childhood.
The Shaykh : General.
The questioner : General, O Shaykh, general in childhood.
The Shaykh : All right, which general text can be subject to specification?
The questioner: Perhaps.
The Shaykh : Is this general text subject to this possibility?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, the problem is resolved.
The questioner : So this is a general text that is specified.
The Shaykh : Ah, but it is said regarding the specified case, for any adult man.
The questioner : For one who is in the aforementioned state.
The Shaykh : This is what we said earlier.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of yourself.
The questioner : It seems there is an addition in the hadith; I do not remember what the addition is, meaning, clarify this thing you mentioned, I do not know if you remember it?
The Shaykh : No, I do not remember, yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : In which era?
The questioner : O Shaykh, examples of the rule mentioned by the brother Wafi' so that ...
The Shaykh : A specific incident?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, a specific incident.
The questioner : O Shaykh, must all the conditions be that he is a freed slave?
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not a condition. Let us suppose, for example, two brothers who are disbelievers lived together for a long time, one was single and the other was married, and the people did not prohibit or permit it. The married couple became Muslim, but that one remained single, yet he could not find a way to live alone, so he was compelled to live with the family he had lived with for a long time. In that case, it is said to the husband: tell your wife to breastfeed your brother so that this brother becomes her son through breastfeeding. This is an example, I mean.
The questioner : All right, O Shaykh, what is said regarding 'A'ishah?
The Shaykh : What is said regarding what?
The questioner : Regarding the Lady 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her)?
The Shaykh : What is there?
The questioner : When she wanted a man to enter her home, she ordered her sister to breastfeed him.
The Shaykh : A man? She acted according to the hadith.
The questioner : She benefited from the story of Salim.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is the hadith she acted upon.
The questioner : Is this another exception to the generality? Is it the same story or is it similar to it?
The Shaykh : How do you know it is similar or not? I mean, the following question is directed to you now.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you imagine that the Lady 'A'ishah would deny the general rule?
The questioner : She does not deny it.
The Shaykh : I mean, is she ignorant of it?
The questioner : I do not think so, she is not ignorant of it.
The Shaykh : No, seriously, if it must be the case, she must have an excuse that justifies her applying the story of Salim to the case.
The questioner : Even though the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
The Shaykh : Because it is not necessary that we know the reason. It is mentioned in the hadith of Salim that the Mothers of the Believers differed with the Lady 'A'ishah, considering it specific to her, while she considered it not specific.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So if she considered, or to put it correctly, benefited from this hadith which she did not consider specific to that incident, contrary to her co-wives, she applies it in matters where she sees a benefit in doing so.
The questioner : O Shaykh, of course, there must be breastfeeding and milk, or not?
The Shaykh : It relies on breastfeeding.
The questioner : I mean, because he is older than the age of breastfeeding.
The Shaykh : This is a self-evident matter; breastfeeding is necessary.
The questioner : It seems that if someone from the general public hears this, they do not take it seriously. If 'A'ishah wanted someone to enter her home in this sense, she ordered her sister to breastfeed him, as if it were a job, I mean.
The Shaykh : What do you mean by "if she wanted"? I mean, the whole market?
The questioner : So...
The Shaykh : No, no, the matter is as I told you. This understanding, my brother, always represents and indicates that the rulings of the Shari'ah are not taken from a single text, but from a collection of texts. Can a Muslim imagine that the Lady 'A'ishah wanted to let all people enter her home? That is not reasonable. It is not reasonable for the wife of any of us. What is the comparison between her and the Lady 'A'ishah, the Mother of the Believers? If it must be the case, we must imagine that she had a benefit in letting in the one she wanted to let in. So it is not permissible to generalize what comes to mind merely from the narration of the text.
The questioner : How many sucklings did she breastfeed the adult until?
The Shaykh : Five, as is customary.
The questioner : Like the child.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed. Actually, I am not recalling a suitable example for the one who said it now, yes?
The questioner : The woman who vowed to strike the head of the Messenger of Allah with the hand drum.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is correct. This is an example.
The questioner : And the Ansari woman who is mentioned in the beginning of Surat al-Mumtahanah, to whom the Messenger of Allah permitted mourning, whose neighbors were pleased with her.
The Shaykh : Yes, because of her neighbors.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah.
The questioner : In Sahih al-Bukhari
The questioner : ... there was a fabricated hadith.
The Shaykh : What happens today between mothers and sons cannot be permitted in such an exceptional case. I mean, what does the woman equal? We see, unfortunately, some women on the roadside looking at the milk-filled breast, which is what incitesThe Shaykh : the one like my story, and she puts what? Her son, and she breastfeeds him. And from this, we must imagine the breastfeeding of an adult man by this woman. If it must be the case, we must imagine the breastfeeding directly. She only shows the nipple, but the head of the breast, so he sucks without seeing anything of her breast, because this breast is not permissible for the son, for the son who is her son and from her husband's lineage, because this is an 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered) for him, let alone for one who has not yet become her son. But if the matter is a matter of solving a problem and necessity, as we mentioned earlier, and the matter is as it is said: necessities permit the prohibited, but with the rule that necessity is measured by its extent. What is intended? The intended thing is giving this adult man the milk of this woman to remove that problem.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, does this happen merely by her showing the head of her breast and him sucking until he is satisfied?
The questioner: Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh : And five, what? Five sucklings. This is one method, and the second method is said regarding that which you named, and that is enough, we do not repeat what you named it. It is said to him: if a wet nurse, for some reason, poured from her breast into a container, and we do not say in a cup, in the same artificial wet nurses.
The questioner : Breastfeeding.
The Shaykh : This wet nurse, ah, and this boy came and drank from this milk, and five satchling sats, what do you think this person will be? That he became her son or not? Without a doubt, he became her son because he suckled from her milk. And this is in reality derived from an important legal and Shari'ah perspective, which is that the Shari'ah does not place much emphasis on the means, as long as the objectives are achieved by any other means, unless that means is prohibited. So at that time, this boy suckled directly from the mother or suckled from this breastfeeding where her milk was poured into it, so he is her son, without a doubt and without any doubt. And it is more preferable that this act be done with the adult man who is to be breastfed from the woman's milk, rather than him sucking the milk directly from her breast.
The questioner : As long as the means is found.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : As long as the means is found.
The Shaykh : That is it.
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