Mr. Allama Muhammad bin Abdullah Awad Al-Muayyidi

Question: The hadith narrated by Zayd ibn ʿAlī (peace be upon him): “Whoever sells and buys … up to his saying: has sunk into usury, then sunk into it”—is this intended of everyone who sells and buys, even a small...

Question: There is a couple with children who themselves are married. A woman informed them that she had breastfed them both, and after this report—coming after a long companionship and their having reached old age—they were thrown into extreme confusion....

Question: A man married a woman and had several children by her. Later it became clear that he was her paternal uncle through breastfeeding. After investigation it appeared the nursing was fewer than five sucklings, and the husband then sought...

Question: A man married a woman, and his father and the woman’s guardians believed that the milk of breastfeeding pertains to the mother alone. They remained long upon that view until old age; then they heard that the milk pertains...

Question: An old woman played with two infants and calmed them by giving them her breasts; later one of the two wished to marry the other. Is what she did considered breastfeeding or not?

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?