And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said regarding Durrah bint Abi Salamah: "If she were not my stepdaughter who is under my guardianship, she would not be lawful for me. She is the daughter of my brother through nursing; Thuwaybah nursed both me and her father." It is agreed upon (3). This is because the mothers and sisters are explicitly mentioned, and the remainder enter into the generality of the wording regarding all other prohibited women. We know of no disagreement regarding this.
1146- Issue; he said: (And the milk of the stallion is prohibited.)
Its meaning is that if a woman nurses a child with milk that has come about (1) from sexual intercourse with a man, the child becomes prohibited to the man and his relatives, just as his offspring by lineage are prohibited; this is because the milk is from the man just as it is from the woman. Thus, the child becomes a child of the man, the man becomes his father, and the man's children become his siblings, whether they are from that woman or from someone else. The man's brothers and sisters become the child's paternal uncles and aunts, and his fathers and mothers become his grandfathers and grandmothers. Ahmad said: The milk of the stallion is when a man has two wives, and one nurses a female infant and the other a male infant; this one may not be married to that one. Ibn 'Abbas was asked about a man who had two slave women, one of whom nursed a female slave and the other a male slave; he said: No, the paternity (liqaḥ) is one (2). Al-Tirmidhi said: This is an interpretation of the milk of
= 1/474. Al-Nasa'i, in: Chapter on What is Prohibited by Nursing, and Chapter on the Prohibition of the Brother's Daughter by Nursing, from the Book of Marriage. Al-Mujtaba 6/82, 83. Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on What is Prohibited by Nursing is What is Prohibited by Lineage, from the Book of Marriage. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/623. Al-Darimi, in: Chapter on What is Prohibited by Nursing, from the Book of Marriage. Sunan al-Darimi 2/156. Imam Malik, in: Chapter on the Nursing of the Young, and Chapter: A Comprehensive Section on What Was Said Regarding Nursing, from the Book of Nursing. Al-Muwatta 2/601, 607. Imam Ahmad, in: Al-Musnad 1/275, 290, 329, 339, 6/44, 51, 66, 72, 102, 178. (3) Recorded by al-Bukhari, in: Chapter on Testimony Regarding Lineage and Widespread Nursing..., from the Book of Testimonies; and in: Chapter: {And your mothers who nursed you...}, and Chapter: {And your stepdaughters who are under your guardianship...}, and Chapter: {And that you combine between two sisters except what has already passed}, from the Book of Marriage; and in: Chapter on Nursing Women from among the Freed Slave Women, from the Book of Expenses (al-Nafaqat). Sahih al-Bukhari 3/222, 7/12, 14, 15, 87. Muslim, in: Chapter on the Prohibition of the Stepdaughter and the Sister of the Wife, from the Book of Nursing. Sahih Muslim 2/1072, 1073. It was also recorded by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on What is Prohibited by Nursing is What is Prohibited by Lineage, from the Book of Marriage 1/474. Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on What is Prohibited by Nursing is What is Prohibited by Lineage, from the Book of Marriage. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/624. Imam Ahmad, in: Al-Musnad 6/291, 428. (1) Thaba: returned. (2) Recorded by al-Tirmidhi, in: Chapter on What Was Said Regarding the Milk of the Stallion, from the Chapters of Nursing. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 5/89, 90. =
