If my husband's orphaned sister breastfeeds, will my brother be her maternal uncle?
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Your suckling of your wife's sister makes her your daughter through suckling, and your brother becomes her maternal uncle through suckling. What is forbidden by lineage is also forbidden by suckling.
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