Would My Son from a Previous Marriage Become Mahram of the Female Infant Whom My Wife Breastfeeds?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
If my wife, who has never been pregnant, naturally produces breast milk and breastfeeds a female infant and fulfills the conditions for establishing foster relations via milk nursing (https://seekers.flywheelstaging.com/answers/shafii-fiqh/how-much-milk-nursing-is-needed-to-establish-familial-bonds/), would that make my son from a previous marriage a mahram of the female infant who my wife breastfeeds? Additionally, would it make my father, grandfather, and brother mahrams of the infant in question? Jazakum Allah khairan.
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
No, it will not make your son a mahram to the female infant whom your wife breastfeeds, as he is from a previous marriage. However, the husband will become the foster father of the female infant. Also, it will make the father, grandfather, and brother mahrams to the infant. This is all subject to if the female infant ingesting the milk was less than 2.5 lunar years old at the time.
If a woman has breastfed a child, her husband will be the foster father of that child because he was the reason for her milk.
[Ibn ʿAbidin, Radd al-Muhtar]
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[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
