Is the brother's wife unlawful for the grandfather if she breastfed his granddaughter five times or more?
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Your granddaughter or daughter being nursed by your brother's wife or any foreign woman does not make her forbidden to you in the future. This is because the mother of your son's child, even if she is forbidden by lineage, may not be so by fosterage if a foreign woman nursed her.
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