What is the meaning of the scholars' statement: "It is possible that touching is forgiven out of necessity," in the context of Suhail's daughter suckling Salim, and does this indicate that he touched and saw her breast, and what is the wisdom behind this, despite the possibility of milking the milk into a vessel?
Scholars are of the view that for an adult to be breastfed, he should drink the expressed milk, and it is not permissible for an adult to latch onto a woman's breast. Some scholars, however, permit this specifically for Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hudhayfah, due to his particular need and because it was established in the minds of those concerned that he was her son and she was his mother, and also because it is not permissible to expose a free woman's breast, as it is 'awrah (private part).
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