Marrying the Milk Sister of One’s Father

Question

Zayd married Khalida, and Khalida bore Zayd two children, Nawazish ‘Ali and Zaynab. After that Khalida died, and Zayd married Hinda. From Hinda two children were born, Nasib ‘Ali and Tahira, after which Zayd died. About ten or twelve years after Zayd’s death a daughter, Zubayda, was born to Nawazish ‘Ali; Nawazish ‘Ali’s wife died ten or twelve days after Zubayda was born. After that Hinda, who is Zubayda’s paternal step-grandmother, suckled Zubayda with her own milk and raised her.

Answer

When Zubayda drank the milk of Hinda, her grandfather’s wife, during the suckling period (ayyam al-rada‘a), Hinda became her milk mother, and Hinda’s husband, that is, Zubayda’s grandfather, became her milk father.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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