Al-Sayyid Al-Allamah Al-Hujjah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah Awad al-Mu’ayyidi May Allah preserve him

Question: Many questions have reached me—still they come—about a grandmother who takes her grandchild in her lap and offers her breast to quiet the child’s crying; the infant sucks the grandmother’s breast. What is the ruling of this nursing?

Question: A woman breastfed her husband’s minor wife. What follows from that?

Question:(1) Is it valid for a man to marry a girl who was breastfed by the daughter of a wife of his whom he has divorced?(2) Is it valid for a man to marry a woman while his son marries...

Question: A man married a woman, and it later became clear to the spouses that they were milk-siblings. He separated from her while she was pregnant. When she gave birth, his brother married her—all of this occurring after they had...

Question: A woman is afflicted with tuberculosis, yet she clings strongly to custody of her child. Is it permissible for the child’s father to take him from her on account of that illness, or not?

Question: A man and his divorced wife disputed over which of them should take their child who has become self-sufficient. What is the legal ruling in this?

Question: Is the waiting period (ʿiddah), whether for divorce or for death, a right of the husband or of Allah Most High? And does remaining in a particular place enter into the concept of the waiting period?

Question: A man married a woman, but she fled his house on the second day and flatly refused to return to her husband’s home, and demanded divorce. The husband refused to divorce except on condition that his expenses be returned....

Question: A man divorced his wife after a valid seclusion (khalwah sahihah) without having intercourse, then later took her back (rajʿah). Is that revocation valid?

Question: A man divorced his wife once, and does not know whether that divorce occurred before puberty or after it. Later he disputed with another man over a matter and swore by divorce that that matter had not occurred; it...