What are the rights of relatives through breastfeeding, and do they have the same rights as relatives by blood?
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The questioner : The second question says: I ask the honorable Shaykh to clarify for people the rights of relatives through breastfeeding, and whether they have the same rights as relatives by blood.
The Shaykh : This questioner’s expression, “relatives through breastfeeding,” is incorrect, because breastfeeding is not kinship.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Kinship is only in lineage, meaning that the cause of the connection between two people is birth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So kinship is that in which the cause of the connection is birth, such as fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, paternal uncles and aunts, and maternal uncles and aunts.
As for breastfeeding, it is a type of connection, no doubt, but it is not considered kinship, and it does not carry the rights that kinship carries. Therefore, financial maintenance is not obligatory in it, nor is blood money, nor maintaining ties, nor anything else. However, it only prohibits marriage, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his familySunan Ibn Majah 1937Sahih (Darussalam) or he said But a person should maintain ties with the woman who breastfed him, his maternal aunt through breastfeeding, his sister’s daughter through breastfeeding, his brother’s son through breastfeeding, and the like, because they have some right, but it is not like the right of lineage. Yes.
The Shaykh : This questioner’s expression, “relatives through breastfeeding,” is incorrect, because breastfeeding is not kinship.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Kinship is only in lineage, meaning that the cause of the connection between two people is birth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So kinship is that in which the cause of the connection is birth, such as fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, paternal uncles and aunts, and maternal uncles and aunts.
As for breastfeeding, it is a type of connection, no doubt, but it is not considered kinship, and it does not carry the rights that kinship carries. Therefore, financial maintenance is not obligatory in it, nor is blood money, nor maintaining ties, nor anything else. However, it only prohibits marriage, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his family