Fatwa: # 19804
Category: Misc. Fiqh
Country: Pakistan
Date: 7th March 2012

Title

Is drinking 2 to 3 drops of milk makes your auntie your foster mother?

Question

Is drinking 2 to 3 drops of milk makes your auntie your foster mother?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu `alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh. 

According to Imam Abu Hanifah (Rahimahullah Ta’Ala) if an infant takes any amount of milk of a woman other than his mother, that woman will become his foster mother.

In the enquired case the aunty will become the child’s foster mother. Consequently all the children of the aunty will become foster brothers and sisters of this child. Foster brothers and sisters are in the same ruling as blood brothers and sisters. Marriage with them is prohibited.[1] &[2]

And Allah knows best.

Mawlana Saeed Ahmed Golaub
Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies
Student Darul Iftaa

Checked and Approved 
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
daruliftaa.net


[1] الدر المختار وحاشية ابن عابدين (رد المحتار) (3 / 209):

بَابُ الرَّضَاعِ (هُوَ) لُغَةً بِفَتْحٍ وَكَسْرٍ: مَصُّ الثَّدْيِ. وَشَرْعًا (مَصٌّ مِنْ ثَدْيِ آدَمِيَّةٍ) وَلَوْ بِكْرًا أَوْ مَيِّتَةً أَوْ آيِسَةً، وَأُلْحِقَ بِالْمَصِّ الْوَجُورُ وَالسَّعُوطُ (فِي وَقْتٍ مَخْصُوصٍ) هُوَ (حَوْلَانِ وَنِصْفٌ عِنْدَهُ وَحَوْلَانِ) فَقَطْ (عِنْدَهُمَا وَهُوَ الْأَصَحُّ) فَتْحٌ وَبِهِ يُفْتَى كَمَا فِي تَصْحِيحِ الْقُدُورِيِّ عَنْ الْعَوْنِ، لَكِنْ فِي الْجَوْهَرَةِ أَنَّهُ فِي الْحَوْلَيْنِ وَنِصْفٍ، وَلَوْ بَعْدَ الْفِطَامِ

[2] المحيط البرهاني في الفقه النعماني (3 / 68):

ومن جملة أسباب التحريم: الرضاع، فالرضاع في إيجاب الحرمة كالنسب والصهرية. والأصل فيه: قوله عليه السلام «يحرم من الرضاع ما يحرم من النسب» والمعنى في ذلك: أن الماء أصل في التكوين، واللبن أصل في النشوء والزيادة، فجرى النشوء من أصل التكوين مجرى الوصف من الأصل مجرى الحق من الحقيقة، والحرمان يختلط في أنسابها، فالحق ألحق بالحقيقة والوصف بالأصل

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