the stallion. Among those who held the view of its prohibition are Ali, Ibn Abbas, Ata, Tawus, Mujahid, al-Hasan, al-Sha'bi, al-Qasim, Urwah, Malik, al-Thawri, al-Awza'i, al-Shafi'i, Ishaq, Abu Ubayd, Abu Thawr, and Ibn al-Mundhir, as well as the Scholars of Opinion (Ashab al-Ra'y). Ibn Abd al-Barr said: The jurists of the major cities in the Hijaz, Iraq, and the Levant, as well as a group of the People of Hadith, went along with this. Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, Abu Salamah ibn Abd al-Rahman, Sulayman ibn Yasar, Ata ibn Yasar (3), al-Nakha'i, and Abu Qilabah granted a dispensation regarding the milk of the stallion. It is also narrated (4) from Ibn al-Zubayr and a group of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)—who are not named—because nursing is from the woman, not the man. It is narrated from Zaynab bint Abi Salamah that Asma bint Abi Bakr, the wife of al-Zubayr, nursed her. She said: Al-Zubayr would enter upon me while I was combing my hair; he would take hold of a lock of my hair and say: "Turn toward me and speak to me, for I consider you a father, and those you have borne are my siblings." Then, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr sent to me to propose to my daughter, Umm Kulthum, on behalf of Hamzah ibn al-Zubayr, and Hamzah was [the son of the woman] from the Kalb tribe. I said to his messenger: "Is she lawful for him, when she is only the daughter of his sister (5)?" Abdullah said: "You only intend by this refusal to preserve what is with you. As for what Asma bore, they are your siblings, but those who are not from Asma are not your siblings. So send and ask about this." She sent and asked (6), while the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) were present, and they said to her: "Nursing on the part of the man does not prohibit anything." So she married her to him, and she remained with him until he passed away (7). As for our argument, it is what Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated, that Aflah, the brother of Abu al-Qu'ays, asked for permission...
= Al-Bayhaqi, in: Chapter on What is Prohibited by Nursing..., from the Book of Nursing. Al-Sunan al-Kubra 7/453. Sa'id ibn Mansur, in: Chapter on What Was Said Regarding the Daughter of the Brother by Nursing. Al-Sunan 1/240. (3) Ata ibn Yasar al-Madani, the jurist, client (mawla) of Maymunah the Mother of the Believers; he was reliable (thiqah) and died in the year 103 AH. Al-'Ibar 1/125. (4) In the original manuscript: "and it is narrated". (5) In [A], [B], and [M]: "his brother". (6) Omitted from [M]. (7) Its documentation was previously provided on page 493.
