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.