Is the default for an elderly woman who breastfed a child the presence or absence of milk, knowing that she has passed away and cannot be referred to?
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The jurists have concluded that حرمة (prohibition) is established by suckling the milk of an old woman. However, if there is doubt about the presence of milk in a woman's breast, the prohibition is not established, because the default is its absence, and certainty is not removed by doubt.
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