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A young boy who is at the threshold of puberty comes to you. '''I, however, do not like that he should come to me, whereupon 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) said: Don't you see in Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) a model for you?''' She also said: The wife of Abu Hudhaifa said: Messenger of Allah, Salim comes to me and now he is a (grown-up) person, and there is something that (rankles) in the mind of Abu Hudhaifa about him, whereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Suckle him (so that he may become your foster-child), and thus he may be able to come to you (freely).}} | A young boy who is at the threshold of puberty comes to you. '''I, however, do not like that he should come to me, whereupon 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) said: Don't you see in Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) a model for you?''' She also said: The wife of Abu Hudhaifa said: Messenger of Allah, Salim comes to me and now he is a (grown-up) person, and there is something that (rankles) in the mind of Abu Hudhaifa about him, whereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Suckle him (so that he may become your foster-child), and thus he may be able to come to you (freely).}} | ||
An account described in the ''Umm'' of Imam Shafi'i provides further detail, stating that Aisha | An account described in the ''Umm'' of Imam Shafi'i provides further detail, stating that Aisha enforced the suckling requirement on all those who wanted to meet with her. Imam Shafi'i also describes how Aisha, presumably being quite busy after Muhammad's death, would have her sister Umm Kulthum suckle men who wanted to meet with Aisha in her place, since being the mahram of one person renders one the mahram of all of that person's sibling. | ||
{{Quote|{{citation|url=https://app.turath.io/book/1655|author=Imam Shafi'i|title=al-Umm|volume=5|page=28|publisher=al-Maktabah al-Shamilah|chapter=مَا يحرم مِنْ النِّسَاء بِالْقَرَابَةِ}};<br> translation taken from: {{citation|url=http://www.hadith-studies.com/Burton-Theories-Abrogation.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914141028/http://www.hadith-studies.com/Burton-Theories-Abrogation.pdf|page=157|author=John Burton|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|title=The Sources of Islamic Law: Islamic theories of abrogation|year=1990}}|[Aisha] reported that 'in what was revealed of the Kur'an, ten attested breast-feeds were mentioned as required to establish the marriage-ban [i.e. render the suckled person a ''mahram'']. The ten were replaced by mention of five attested breast-feeds. The Prophet died and the five were still being recited in the Kur'an. '''No man ever called upon 'A'isha who had not completed the minimum course of five sucklings.'''<br> | {{Quote|{{citation|url=https://app.turath.io/book/1655|author=Imam Shafi'i|title=al-Umm|volume=5|page=28|publisher=al-Maktabah al-Shamilah|chapter=مَا يحرم مِنْ النِّسَاء بِالْقَرَابَةِ}};<br> translation taken from: {{citation|url=http://www.hadith-studies.com/Burton-Theories-Abrogation.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914141028/http://www.hadith-studies.com/Burton-Theories-Abrogation.pdf|page=157|author=John Burton|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|title=The Sources of Islamic Law: Islamic theories of abrogation|year=1990}}|[Aisha] reported that 'in what was revealed of the Kur'an, ten attested breast-feeds were mentioned as required to establish the marriage-ban [i.e. render the suckled person a ''mahram'']. The ten were replaced by mention of five attested breast-feeds. The Prophet died and the five were still being recited in the Kur'an. '''No man ever called upon 'A'isha who had not completed the minimum course of five sucklings.'''<br> | ||
'Abdullah b. al-Zubayr reports that the Prophet said, 'One suckling does not constitute the ban, nor two, nor does one or two sucks.'<br> | 'Abdullah b. al-Zubayr reports that the Prophet said, 'One suckling does not constitute the ban, nor two, nor does one or two sucks.'<br> | ||