Narrated `Aisha: (the wife of the Prophet) that while Allah's Apostle was with her, she heard a voice of a man asking permission to enter the house of Hafsa. `Aisha added: I said, O Allah's Apostle! This man is asking permission to enter your house. The Prophet said, I think he is so-and-so, naming the foster-uncle of Hafsa. `Aisha said, If so-and-so, naming her foster uncle, were living, could he enter upon me? The Prophet said, Yes, for foster suckling relations make all those things unlawful which are unlawful through corresponding birth (blood) relations.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: It was said to the Prophet, Won't you marry the daughter of Hamza? He said, She is my foster niece (brother's daughter).
Read More..Narrated Um Habiba: (daughter of Abu Sufyan) I said, O Allah's Apostle! Marry my sister. the daughter of Abu Sufyan. The Prophet said, Do you like that? I replied, Yes, for even now I am not your only wife and I like that my sister should share the good with me. The Prophet said, But that is not lawful for me. I said, We have heard that you want to marry the daughter of Abu Salama. He said, (You mean) the daughter of Um Salama? I said, Yes. He said, Even if she were not my step-daughter, she would be unlawful for me to marry as she is my foster niece. I and Abu Salama were suckled by Thuwaiba. So you should not present to me your daughters or your sisters (in marriage). Narrated 'Urwa:Thuwaiba was the freed slave girl of Abu Lahb whom he had manumitted, and then she suckled the Prophet. When Abu Lahb died, one of his relatives saw him in a dream in a very bad state and asked him, What have you encountered? Abu Lahb said, I have not found any rest since I left you, except that I have been given water to drink in this (the space between his thumb and other fingers) and that is because of my manumitting Thuwaiba.
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: that the Prophet entered upon her while a man was sitting with her. Signs of answer seemed to appear on his face as if he disliked that. She said, Here is my (foster) brother. He said, Be sure as to who is your foster brother, for foster suckling relationship is established only when milk is the only food of the child.
Read More..Narrated Aisha: that Aflah the brother of Abu Al-Qu'ais, her foster uncle, came, asking permission to enter upon her after the Verse of Al-Hijab (the use of veils by women) was revealed. `Aisha added: I did not allow him to enter, but when Allah's Apostle came, I told him what I had done, and he ordered me to give him permission.
Read More..Narrated `Uqba bin Al-Harith: I married a woman and then a black lady came to us and said, I have suckled you both (you and your wife). So I came to the Prophet and said, I married so-and-so and then a black lady came to us and said to me, 'I have suckled both of you.' But I think she is a liar. The Prophet turned his face away from me and I moved to face his face, and said, She is a liar. The Prophet said, How (can you keep her as your wife) when that lady has said that she has suckled both of you? So abandon (i.e., divorce) her (your wife).
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