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What is Islam's ruling on someone who breastfed more than five times with non-satiating sucklings, and is their marriage valid?

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The prohibitive suckling must consist of five full sucklings. Therefore, if a woman suckled from another woman more than five non-full sucklings, it is permissible for anyone who shared suckling from that woman to marry her, provided there is no other proven legal suckling between them.

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