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Does a husband become a father to a suckled infant through his wife suckling her, thus making her unlawful for him upon reaching puberty?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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If you breastfeed the girl, you become her foster mother, and your husband becomes her foster father. It is stated in "Al-Mudawwana" that the milk belongs to the male even if the woman does not become pregnant, because intercourse stimulates milk production. The majority of scholars, however, are of the view that a prior pregnancy is not a condition for the establishment of prohibition through a woman's milk. Thus, the milk of a virgin who has not been intercoursed and has not conceived establishes prohibition, due to the generality of Allah's saying: "{and your mothers who breastfed you}," and because it is a woman's milk to which prohibition is attached.

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