Foster relationship

Breastfeeding one's step son

Q: I have a question about my step son. What does Islam say about breastfeeding a step son (he is my husband's son, his mother has left this child in our custody). If I am not wrong, every child has a right to be breastfed according to Islam. So as a stepmother is it permissible for me to breastfeed him? Is it sawab or gunaah?

Marrying one's cousin

Q: I have two uncles. My grandmother has breastfed my elder uncle's first child. Now my parents want me to marry younger uncle's daughter. So, is it permissible according to Islam as my grandmother has breastfed my eldest uncle's first child.

Marrying my cousin

Q: I am engaged to the daughter of the sister of my father. In my child hood, mother of my father used to put her breast nipple in my mouth, whenever I cried. She was old then and had no milk in her breast. What I want to ask is it halal to marry with my cousin now?

Marrying the daughter of a woman who breastfed one

Q: A child drank milk from a woman. Later vomited it all out. Would it be haram for this boy to marry this womans daughter. The families are very close to each other. (I said no, but they said, the boy vomit it out. i said, there is a possibility that some stayed in the stomach.) They want a response from a mufti saheb. To complicate it shiek Usaymeen of saudi arabia in his fatwa kitab said so long as it is not beyond 5 sucklings it is ok, this maybe the hanabila view. The person asking is hanafee)