12. BECOMING UNMARRIAGEABLE KIN BY SUCKLING (RIOA’)
An infant becomes the “child” of the female who breast-feeds him (in respect to being unable to marry her, to the permissibility of looking at her and being alone with her, and in his ablution (wudu) not being nullified by touching her) when:
a) the milk comes from a female at least nine years old, whether it is occasioned by sexual intercourse or something else;
b) and she breast-feeds a child who is less than two full years old;
c) in at least five separate breast-feedings (a restriction that excludes anything less than five, which is of no consequence. Separate breast feedings mean whatever is commonly acknowledged to be separate).
In such a case:
1. it is unlawful for the wet nurse to marry the child and its subsequent descendants (by familial relation or by suckling) exclusively (0: exclusively meaning that only the child’s descendants become unlawful for her to marry, not the child’s ancestors (or brothers));
2. she becomes the child’s “mother,” and it is unlawful for the child to marry her, her ancestors (by familial relation or by suckling), her descendants (who become as if they were the child’s brothers and sisters), or her brothers and sisters (though the child is not forbidden to marry the latter’s’ children).
If the wet nurse’s milk was occasioned by a pregnancy from her husband, then:
1) the child she nurses becomes the husband’s “child,” and the husband may not marry the child or its descendants (by familial relation or by suckling, since they are now as if his grandchildren) exclusively;
2) and the husband becomes the child’s “father,” and it is unlawful for the child to marry him, his ancestors, his descendants, or his brothers and sisters.
Upon becoming unmarriageable kin through suckling, marriage between the abovementioned persons is prohibited, and it is permissible for the respective members of the opposite sex to look at each other as they do with their familial unmarriageable relatives, and to be alone with them (though other kinds of rulings applicable to natural relatives, such as inheritance or having to support them are not applicable to unmarriageable kin by suckling).
(Source: The reliance of the traveller, revised edition, Edited and Translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller)
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