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
Is it permissible for me to marry my paternal cousin's daughter, given that her mother breastfed me along with her younger brother?
Is it permissible for the daughter of the sister to marry the son of the maternal uncle if the maternal aunt of the maternal uncle's son breastfed both of them two full feedings, and he is five years older than her, knowing that he was breastfed for a long period and she was breastfed two full feedings, and will she be sinful for continuing to love him?
What is the ruling on a maternal uncle marrying the sister of his paternal niece's son?
Is the wife's elder sister permanently forbidden to her sister's husband if she breastfed the wife in her infancy?
Is it permissible for a man to marry his paternal uncle's daughter, knowing that he was fully breastfed by his brother's wife, and that his brother was breastfed by this girl's mother?
Is it permissible for the questioner's son to marry the daughter of her friend, who was nursed by the questioner twice on the same day?
What is the ruling on my remaining with my current husband after I discovered that I am pregnant by another man, given my fear that: 1. The fetus may resemble its biological father, which could cause family problems? 2. My health condition is serious, and I may not be able to complete the pregnancy?
Will the foster mother's daughter become a sister to her sister's son through fosterage if her mother breastfed him two or three times 40 years ago, and is their marriage, which took place 22 years ago, valid?
Is the husband of the foster aunt considered a forbidden marriage (mahram), given that the wife (the aunt) did not nurse the father, but rather nursed some of the paternal uncles?
What is the ruling on my suckling from a woman who claimed to have suckled me after she refused to suckle me when I needed it?
Are the wife's relations by fosterage (her husband, his brothers, his sisters, her brothers, her sisters) considered her husband's mahram?
Upon what basis can a non-Arab affiliate himself with Arabs, and does the Hadith "May Allah curse whoever affiliates himself with other than his father" apply to such an affiliation?
Is it permissible to marry the daughter of a maternal uncle if the mother breastfed the uncle more than four full feedings before he completed two years of age?
Is it forbidden to combine two wives if the mother of one of them nursed the other?
Are the daughters of a maternal aunt who were nursed by the mother considered Mahram, and what is the ruling regarding the sons of maternal uncles, both older and younger than them?
Is the number of رضعات (breastfeeds) and satiation considered when applying the Hadith: "A suckle or two do not affect fosterage by breastfeeding," bearing in mind that the breastfeeding occurred when I was eight months old, and I used to be left with my grandmother from 6 PM until 10 AM?
Is breastfeeding that renders marriage unlawful established by the report of the foster mother’s daughter (the sister) on the authority of her deceased mother, in the absence of other witnesses, and the presence of other inconclusive reports from a second sister, and the denial or lack of recollection from family and relatives?
What is the ruling on marrying a foster sister to a blood brother?
Is it permissible for the son of a foster daughter to marry the daughter of her son, knowing that the foster mother does not remember the number of sucklings or whether they were sufficient, and that she breastfed eight years after her menstrual cycle ceased and she had no milk?
Does a husband sucking his wife's breast after childbirth make the newborn a brother to the husband through rada’a (nursing)?
Is it permissible for a woman's son to marry the younger sister of his niece, whom his mother breastfed?
Does not performing the correct ghusl after menstruation following zinā prevent the womb from being cleared, and can she marry now?
Is the daughter of the maternal aunt of the mother considered unlawful for the suitor in Islamic law if the suitor's grandmother (the suitor's mother's mother) breastfed the maternal aunt of the suitor's mother? And is it a condition for a testimony regarding the breastfeeding to be present to establish the prohibition, given that the suitor's grandmother mentioned this breastfeeding 44 years after it occurred?
Is it permissible for a man to marry the sister of a person who committed sodomy with him 15 years ago, knowing that the man has repented and regrets his deed which he committed when he was young?