Is it permissible to marry a girl whose mother claimed to have breastfed the suitor, then retracted that claim, knowing that the suitor had stopped shaking hands with the girl before intending to marry her?
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Precaution regarding intimate relations necessitates accepting the word of a single woman concerning the establishment of suckling, and this is the most preponderant opinion. Since the woman affirmed that she suckled you, it is not permissible for you to marry her daughter, due to the of Uqbah ibn al-Harith: "How, when it has been said? So, separate from her."
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