Prohibition by Suckling When a Child Is Given a Spoon of Medicine with One’s Milk

Question

The wife of Muhammad Shafi‘ gave Muhammad Ibrahim — the son of her paternal cousin, who is also her sister’s husband — one spoonful of her milk together with medicine, not from the breast. When Muhammad Ibrahim reached twelve years of age, the guardians (walis) of both sides arranged a match between them and married Muhammad Shafi‘’s daughter to Muhammad Ibrahim. Members of the biradari (kinship community)

Answer

If the medicine predominated and the milk was the lesser part, then there is no prohibition from it, and the marriage is not haram because of it. If the medicine was the lesser part and the milk predominated, then the prohibition by suckling has been established; in that case Muhammad Shafi‘’s wife has become Muhammad Ibrahim’s milk mother, and Muhammad Ibrahim’s marriage to…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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