Breastfeeding: those who said one or two sucklings do not make marriage unlawful

Sayyidah Umm al-Fadl (may Allah be pleased with her) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Fosterage is not established by suckling once or twice, nor by one or two sucks.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Fosterage is not established by one or two sucks.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Fosterage is only that which satisfies hunger.

Sayyiduna al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Drinking (milk) once or twice does not establish the prohibition of fosterage.

Abu al-Zubayr said: I asked Sayyiduna Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) about fosterage, and he said: Fosterage is not established by suckling once, twice or three times.

Sayyiduna Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Fosterage is not established by suckling once or twice.

Sulayman bin Yasar said: The prohibition (of fosterage) is established by as much milk as fills the intestines.

Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Fosterage is established only by drinking as much milk as builds flesh and strengthens bone.

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Suckling (that establishes the prohibition of marriage) is established by as much milk as builds flesh and blood.

Nafi' says: When Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) wanted that some child should, after growing up, be able to come in to visit her, she would order one of her female relatives to suckle him (so that Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) would become his foster maternal or paternal aunt). In this regard she ordered (her sister) Umm Kulthum to give Salim (while he was a child) ten sucklings (so that Salim would become Sayyidah Aishah's foster nephew). She gave him three sucklings and then fell ill, so when he grew up he did not come in to her. Likewise, she ordered Fatimah bint Umar to give Asim bin Sa'd, a client (mawla) of theirs, ten sucklings (while he was a child); so she gave him ten sucklings, and he used to come in to her.