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'''Adult suckling''', or the act of breastfeeding a male adult, is mentioned in several relied-upon collections of [[Hadith|hadiths]]. According to a hadith narrated five times in Sahih Muslim, [[Muhammad]] once plainly instructed the daughter of a [[Sahabah|companion]] named Suhail to suckle a "grown-up" freedman named Salim so that Salim would become the daughter's ''mahram'', or a relation whom the daughter could no longer marry, and thus render Salim's cohabitation with the family appropriate and [[Shari'ah (Islamic Law)|legal]].<ref>[https://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-1453 Sahih Muslim, hadiths 3424-3428]</ref> Reports in the Muwatta of Imam Malik<ref>{{Muwatta|30|3|17}}</ref> and Sunan Abu Dawud<ref>{{Ibn Majah|9|3|9|1944}}</ref> add that this instruction was reified by a verse in the [[Qur'an]], Islam's holy scripture, which was still present in the Qur'an after [[Muhammad's Death|Muhammad's death]], indicating that it had not been [[Naskh (Abrogation)|abrogated]] by Muhammad while he was alive. The report in Sunan Abu Dawud continues with [[Aisha]], Muhammad's favorite wife, reporting that while she was "preoccupied with [Muhammad's] death", "a tame sheep came in and ate" the scrap of paper upon which the verse of "breastfeeding an adult" was written. | '''Adult suckling''' (Arabic: '''رَضَاعَةُ الْكَبِيرِ'''), or the act of breastfeeding a male adult, is mentioned in several relied-upon collections of [[Hadith|hadiths]]. According to a hadith narrated five times in Sahih Muslim, [[Muhammad]] once plainly instructed the daughter of a [[Sahabah|companion]] named Suhail to suckle a "grown-up" freedman named Salim so that Salim would become the daughter's ''mahram'', or a relation whom the daughter could no longer marry, and thus render Salim's cohabitation with the family appropriate and [[Shari'ah (Islamic Law)|legal]].<ref>[https://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-1453 Sahih Muslim, hadiths 3424-3428]</ref> Reports in the Muwatta of Imam Malik<ref>{{Muwatta|30|3|17}}</ref> and Sunan Abu Dawud<ref>{{Ibn Majah|9|3|9|1944}}</ref> add that this instruction was reified by a verse in the [[Qur'an]], Islam's holy scripture, which was still present in the Qur'an after [[Muhammad's Death|Muhammad's death]], indicating that it had not been [[Naskh (Abrogation)|abrogated]] by Muhammad while he was alive. The report in Sunan Abu Dawud continues with [[Aisha]], Muhammad's favorite wife, reporting that while she was "preoccupied with [Muhammad's] death", "a tame sheep came in and ate" the scrap of paper upon which the verse of "breastfeeding an adult" was written. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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*{{external_link|url=http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/13/islamic-‘adult-breastfeeding’-fatwas-return/ |title=Islamic ‘Adult Breastfeeding’ Fatwas Return |date=April 13, 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/13/islamic-‘adult-breastfeeding’-fatwas-return/&date=2012-04-15 |archivedate=2012-04-15 |deadurl=no}} | *{{external_link|url=http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/13/islamic-‘adult-breastfeeding’-fatwas-return/ |title=Islamic ‘Adult Breastfeeding’ Fatwas Return |date=April 13, 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/13/islamic-‘adult-breastfeeding’-fatwas-return/&date=2012-04-15 |archivedate=2012-04-15 |deadurl=no}} | ||
*[http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7570/fatwa-men-drink-breast-milk New Fatwa Calls on Men to Drink Women's Breast-Milk] ''- June 4, 2010'' | *[http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7570/fatwa-men-drink-breast-milk New Fatwa Calls on Men to Drink Women's Breast-Milk] ''- June 4, 2010'' | ||
*[http://blogs.periodistadigital.com/totalitarismo.php/2007/06/18/la_diferencia_de_trato_de_los_izquierdis Blog with an article in Spanish] | *[http://blogs.periodistadigital.com/totalitarismo.php/2007/06/18/la_diferencia_de_trato_de_los_izquierdis Blog with an article in Spanish] | ||
*[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Islamic_cleric_tries_to_bypass_gender_segregation Article on Wikinews about the subject] | *[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Islamic_cleric_tries_to_bypass_gender_segregation Article on Wikinews about the subject] | ||
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6681511.stm Article about the matter on BBC] | *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6681511.stm Article about the matter on BBC] | ||
*[http://www.islaminstitut.de/Nachrichtenanzeige.55+M57738d69297.0.html A German article about the subject at the Institut für Islamfragen] | *[http://www.islaminstitut.de/Nachrichtenanzeige.55+M57738d69297.0.html A German article about the subject at the Institut für Islamfragen] | ||
*[http://www.islaminstitut.de/Nachrichtenanzeige.55+M5cacbd3c991.0.html Another German article stating that many | *[http://www.islaminstitut.de/Nachrichtenanzeige.55+M5cacbd3c991.0.html Another German article stating that many Muslimas leave Islam because of the fatwa] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
[[Category:Islam and Women]] | [[Category:Islam and Women]] | ||
[[Category:Islamic Law]] | [[Category:Islamic Law]] | ||
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