What is the criterion for prohibition due to breastfeeding?
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The questioner : What is the criterion for prohibition from breastfeeding?
The Shaykh : The criterion is that what is prohibited by breastfeeding is the same as what is prohibited by blood kinship. We have prohibited [certain relatives] in blood kinship in the same way. That is, the criteria mentioned by the jurists? They say that a person is prohibited from marrying, through breastfeeding, his ancestors, however high up the line, and his descendants, however low down the line, as well as the descendants of his lowest ancestor, however low down the line, and the descendants of his highest ancestor, but only through the direct line. This is the same thing: what is prohibited by breastfeeding is what is prohibited by blood kinship. This applies to his descendants, but as for his ancestors and their descendants, they have no part in the matter. That is to say, breastfeeding is a matter that should be understood as follows: breastfeeding has no connection to the kinship of the breastfed child except for his own descendants. For this reason, it is permissible for his brother by blood to marry the woman who breastfed him, his mother by breastfeeding, and it is permissible for his brother by blood to marry his sister by breastfeeding, because breastfeeding has no connection to anyone other than the breastfed child except for his descendants.
The Shaykh : The criterion is that what is prohibited by breastfeeding is the same as what is prohibited by blood kinship. We have prohibited [certain relatives] in blood kinship in the same way. That is, the criteria mentioned by the jurists? They say that a person is prohibited from marrying, through breastfeeding, his ancestors, however high up the line, and his descendants, however low down the line, as well as the descendants of his lowest ancestor, however low down the line, and the descendants of his highest ancestor, but only through the direct line. This is the same thing: what is prohibited by breastfeeding is what is prohibited by blood kinship. This applies to his descendants, but as for his ancestors and their descendants, they have no part in the matter. That is to say, breastfeeding is a matter that should be understood as follows: breastfeeding has no connection to the kinship of the breastfed child except for his own descendants. For this reason, it is permissible for his brother by blood to marry the woman who breastfed him, his mother by breastfeeding, and it is permissible for his brother by blood to marry his sister by breastfeeding, because breastfeeding has no connection to anyone other than the breastfed child except for his descendants.