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Kitabur Rada' [breastfeeding ] - Definition

Question 1551) - Which laws apply due to breastfeeding?

A: If breastfeeding has taken place within the period as per the difference in opinion, be it a little or much, then marriage is Haram between two Radi', and between a Radi' and its Murdi'sh [wet-nurse], her ancestors, descendants and her relatives of the same line. Allaah has mentioned the prohibition of marrying one's wet-nurse and sisters through breastfeeding. Rasulullaah RAH. said, Allaah has forbidden through breastfeeding what He has forbidden through lineage."*

* Narrated by Muslim

~ al-Quduri ~