Is it permissible to shake hands with the maternal or paternal aunt of one's mother and father?
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It is permissible to shake hands with one's mother, one's father's sister (paternal aunt), one's mother's sister (maternal aunt), or one's father's paternal aunt, and it is permissible to shake hands with female ascendants and descendants.
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