Are the man and his father considered unmarriageable (mahram) to a woman who was nursed by the man's mother, knowing that he (the man) was also nursed by her (the woman's mother), and the number of nursing times is unknown?
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Prohibition is established by five full, satisfying sucklings. Doubt concerning the number of sucklings does not establish prohibition, because the default is the absence of suckling. So, if a man and a woman doubt whether the suckling from the other's mother reached five sucklings, then propinquity (mahramiyya) is not established between them.
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