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Is it permissible to marry a woman if it becomes apparent that her paternal half-sister nursed the suitor once?

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It is permissible to marry the betrothed woman, so long as her paternal sister was suckled by her only once, because the suckling that prohibits marriage is five sucklings. The limit of a suckling is counted by the infant latching onto the breast and suckling from it, then leaving it by his own will.

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