Scientific Errors in the Hadith: Difference between revisions

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===A Pregnant woman's milk can overflow===
===A Pregnant woman's milk can overflow===
It is not clear which child this hadith is describing, a fetus or another child breastfed by the pregnant woman. But the implicit error is that breast milk can overflow. In reality, there can be only some leakage of milk from a pregnant woman's breasts.
It is not clear which child this hadith is describing, a fetus or another child breastfed by the pregnant woman. But the implicit error is that breast milk can overflow. In reality, there can be only some leakage of milk from a pregnant woman's breasts. If a woman is both pregnant and breastfeeding, the milk supply generally decreases.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Feldman S | title = Nursing Through Pregnancy | journal = New Beginnings | volume = 17 | issue = 4 | pages = 116–118, 145 | publisher = La Leche League International |date=July–August 2000 | url = http://www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBJulAug00p116.html | accessdate = 2007-03-15}}</ref>


{{ quote | {{Abudawud|28|3872}} | Narrated Asma', daughter of Yazid ibn as-Sakan: I heard the Apostle of Allah as saying: Do not kill your children secretly, for the milk, with which a child is suckled while his mother is pregnant, overtakes the horseman and throws him from his horse. }}
{{ quote | {{Abudawud|28|3872}} | Narrated Asma', daughter of Yazid ibn as-Sakan: I heard the Apostle of Allah as saying: Do not kill your children secretly, for the milk, with which a child is suckled while his mother is pregnant, overtakes the horseman and throws him from his horse. }}
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