ONE SUCKLING OR TWO DO NOT MAKE MARRIAGE UNLAWFUL(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)
Monday, March 31st, 2008Chapter# 27, Book 8, Number 3414:
‘A’isha (Allah be pleased with her), Suwaid and Zubair reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: One suckling or two do not make (marriage) unlawful.
Book 8, Number 3415:
Umm al-Fadl reported: A bedouin came to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) when he was in my house and said: Allah’s Apostle, I have had a wife and I married another besides her, and my first wife claimed that she had suckled once or twice my newly married wife, thereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: One suckling or two do not make the (marriage) unlawful.
Book 8, Number 3416:
Umm Fadl (Allah be pleased with her) reported that a person from Banu ‘Amir b. Sa’sa said: Allah’s Apostle, does one suckling make the (marriage) unlawful? He said: No.
Book 8, Number 3417:
Umm Fadl (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Being suckled once or twice, or one suckling or two, do not make marriage unlawful.
Book 8, Number 3418:
In the narration transmitted on the authority of Ibn Bishr there is a mention of two sucklings and Ibn Abu Shaiba has narrated it with a small variation of wording.
Book 8, Number 3419:
Umm Fadl (Allah be pleased with her) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be’apon him) having said this: One or two sucklings do not make (the marriage) unlawful.
Book 8, Number 3420:
Umm Fadl (Allah be pleased with her) reported that a person asked Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him): Does one suckling make (the marriage) unlawful? He said: No.
Book 8, Number 3421:
‘A’isha (Allah be pleased with, her) reported that it had been revealed in the Holy Qur’an that ten clear sucklings make the marriage unlawful, then it was abrogated (and substituted) by five sucklings and Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) died and it was before that time (found) in the Holy Qur’an (and recited by the Muslims).
Book 8, Number 3422:
‘Amra reported that she beard ‘A’isha (Allah he pleased with her) discussing fosterage which (makes marriage) unlawful; and she (‘A’isha) said: There was revealed in the Holy Qur’an ten clear sucklings, and then five clear (sucklings).
Book 8, Number 3423:
Ahadith like this is transmitted by ‘A’isha through another chain of narrators.