Kinship, Lineage and Marriage Impediments
This subtopic gathers questions on kinship and what follows from it. These include who is a mahram, a close relative a person cannot marry. They also include impediments to marriage by lineage, marriage and breastfeeding, and how paternity is established or denied.
Questions readers ask here:
- Is it permissible for a man to marry a girl suckled by his younger brother from her mother?
- What is the ruling on a man who attributed himself to a tribe other than his original tribe?
- Is the wife's sister considered a mahram?
- To whom is milk attributed, and does the second husband become a father to the infant?
Travel with or without a mahram belongs under Travel and Mahram.
73 questions
What is the ruling on a man marrying his father's wife's sister from nursing, who shared nursing with his sister from her mother, and is his wife considered his sister from nursing?
Is it permissible for a husband to prevent his wife from greeting and speaking with her brothers through rada'ah (milk-kinship) under the pretext that he does not acknowledge rada'ah?
Is the child, the son of the questioner's sister, considered her son through fosterage after three long breastfeeds, during which the child leaves the breast to breathe, and does the husband's disapproval affect the ruling on fosterage?
Is it permissible to marry the son of a maternal uncle or the son of a maternal aunt, knowing that the mother of the fiancée was suckled three full times by the mother of the fiancé?
Is it permissible to marry the daughter of my sister's husband from her father's side, whom my sister breastfed?
What is the Islamic legal ruling for a wife suckling her brother, and for the wife's mother suckling the questioner's son? And who are the son's unmarriageable kin (mahrams), and does the questioner become unmarriageable to anyone?
If a person breastfed from a girl, do her sisters and daughter become unlawful for him?
Does a father become a mahram to his second wife's daughter from her previous husband, knowing that the second wife breastfed the father along with his sister from his father's side?
Is it permissible to marry the daughter of a maternal uncle, if the elder sister was suckled by the younger maternal uncle?
Is it permissible for a man to marry his wife's paternal aunt (or his father's paternal aunt) through nursing if he was nursed by his paternal aunt?
Is it permissible for a man to marry his paternal uncle's daughter if his sister breastfed his paternal uncle's daughter along with her son?
Are all of the brother's daughters forbidden to the questioner's son if the brother's wife breastfed him once, twice, or thrice, knowing that the questioner's son was sick with pneumonia and was taken to the incubator?
Is it permissible for a woman to marry her paternal aunt's son if her mother nursed her paternal aunt?
Is a young man forbidden from marrying all of his maternal aunt's daughters, or only the middle one, given that he was breastfed by the middle one five satisfying times or more?
Is the brother of a paternal aunt through rada'ah considered mahram, or is it permissible to marry him?
What is the ruling on a son marrying his sister's sister by suckling, who was nursed by his mother to the point of satiation?
What is the ruling on marrying the daughter of a paternal aunt's husband, if the questioner was suckled by his paternal aunt's wife with "many" feedings at infrequent intervals, but his mother denied that these feedings were satiating, and he is confused about the number of feedings and their satiation?
Do the wife and suckling daughters of the father become unlawful to him through fosterage, and is it permissible for him to shake hands with them?
What is the ruling on a man marrying his sister's daughter through suckling (the maternal aunt of his children through suckling), and what is the ruling on their children after they become aware of that?
Is a woman who breastfed with her paternal uncle from his mother considered his paternal aunt?
Does breastfeeding establish in the two aforementioned cases, or in one of them, and is one suckling sufficient to establish breastfeeding?
Is it permissible for the questioner's sister to marry her mother's nephew, given that the questioner's maternal uncle (her mother's brother) was suckled five full feedings by her mother?
Is the son of the maternal uncle, who was suckled by the girl's grandmother (her mother's mother), considered her maternal uncle? And is it permissible for them to marry?
Is it permissible for me to marry my maternal uncle's daughter, knowing that my mother breastfed my maternal uncle (her brother)?