How long is a child nursed, and when does nursing make people maḥram to one another?

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06Nursing

Two full years for whoever wishes to complete the nursing. Weaning earlier by mutual consent is permitted, and no blame attaches to it.

Q 2:233

The milk bond

A woman who nurses a child becomes their mother in prohibition — and her husband their father, her children their siblings. Marriage between them is thereafter forbidden for life.

S and Ḥb — five separate satisfying feeds establish it.

Ḥ and M — any amount that reaches the stomach establishes it.

All four require it to occur within the first two years.

Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ — “Suckling prohibits what birth prohibits.”

Keep a record. Where a child is fed by a relative, a friend, or from donated milk, write down who fed them and when. Families have discovered the bond only at the point of marriage, when it was too late to undo.

A father owes the nursing mother her maintenance, whether she is his wife or divorced — Q 65:6.

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