⫷ Legal Rulings on Milk Kinship (Riḍāʿah) and Marriage in Islam ⫸
My elder brother drank the milk of my cousin’s wife during his infancy. Can I marry that woman’s daughter? I am his younger brother, and the girl in question is my elder brother’s milk-sister.
Your elder brother's milk relationship (riḍāʿah) has no impact on you, since you yourself did not consume that woman's milk.
Therefore, you are permitted to marry her daughter or any of her other daughters or sisters.
However, the one who drank the milk (i.e., your elder brother) cannot marry any of that woman’s daughters or sisters, as they are considered his milk-relatives.
✔ You can marry the girl or any of her sisters, because riḍāʿah does not apply to you.
✔ Milk relationships only affect the one who was breastfed by that particular woman.
❖ Question:
My elder brother drank the milk of my cousin’s wife during his infancy. Can I marry that woman’s daughter? I am his younger brother, and the girl in question is my elder brother’s milk-sister.
❖ Answer by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Wakīl Nāṣir ḥafiẓahullāh:
Your elder brother's milk relationship (riḍāʿah) has no impact on you, since you yourself did not consume that woman's milk.
Therefore, you are permitted to marry her daughter or any of her other daughters or sisters.
However, the one who drank the milk (i.e., your elder brother) cannot marry any of that woman’s daughters or sisters, as they are considered his milk-relatives.
❖ Summary:
✔ You can marry the girl or any of her sisters, because riḍāʿah does not apply to you.
✔ Milk relationships only affect the one who was breastfed by that particular woman.
