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One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

if a women is breast feeding & husband wife have sex is it ok if husband sucks wife`s breast? 

Assalm Walikum,

Dear Brother,

I mailed u eralier butthere was no reply My. previous Question No. 10526

I m repeatingthe same question again, plz do reply.

I am married for 2 years now and recently allah has blessed be with a baby boy.I My wife is now breast feeding the child. I have one question. When i have sex with my wife i suck her nipples and as she is breast feeding the child her breast are filled with milk, Some times while performing sex i happen to drink the milk,

Please inform me as soon as possible that is it haram, please guide me. If i am wrong then i want to stop it.

Waiting for your reply.

 

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Answer:

 

Suck Breasts

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person,  no grave, no prophet,  no imam,  no dai,  nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

There is absolutely no harm or restriction in Islam if the husband wishes to touch, play, kiss, or suck the breasts of his wife.  If the husband happens to taste the milk from his wife’s breast accidentally or voluntary, there is absolutely no harm and does not effect their relationship in the least.

 

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 3173        Narrated by Umm Salamah

Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "The only suckling which makes marriage unlawful is that which is taken from the breast and enters the bowels, and is taken before the time of weaning."

 

The scholars of all the major schools of thought are absolutely unanimous that if the husband accidentally or voluntarily tastes the milk of his wife,  it has absolutely no bearing on the validity of their Nikaah.    Drinking of a woman’s milk forms foster-relations only when an infant sucks the breast of a woman in its age of weaning, which in Shairah is upto two years.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

Burhan