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My grandmother breastfed someone. Does that person become one of our unmarriageable kin (mahārim)?

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If a grandmother breastfeeds a child five times within two years, that child becomes a mahram to her, just like other paternal and maternal uncles. This is based on the Hadith: "What is forbidden by lineage is also forbidden by breastfeeding."

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