Is it permissible to wean a ten-month-old baby girl who is breastfed and bottle-fed when she reaches one year of age, based on the husband's desire to have another child, knowing that the mother breastfeeds in a state of ritual purity?
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If the girl is not harmed by her weaning at one year of age, then there is no blame upon you both for weaning her, due to the Almighty's saying: "And if they both desire weaning by mutual consent from them and consultation, there is no blame upon them." Ibn al-Arabi holds that the duration of breastfeeding is two years, and weaning before that is permissible if both parents agree upon it, without causing harm to the child.
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