Mahram by Breastfeeding: Difference between revisions

* The baby should intake a sufficient amount of the breast milk.<ref>There is a disagreement among jurists as to the amount of the breast milk sufficient for mahramiyya. The majority of jurists maintain that the baby should be breastfed at least 10 or 15 times. Others hold that the baby should be breastfed in the amount that is enough for the growth of flesh in his or her body and the strengthening of his or her bones. Others believe that the amount of breastfeeding required for mahramiyya is a span of one day and night.</ref>

Shiite jurists did not distinguish between children of the breastfeeding father by blood and those by breastfeeding, but some of them denied the mahramiyya of the breastfeeding mother's children by breastfeeding. They hold that the baby becomes mahram only with the breastfeeding mother's children by blood.<ref>According to Shiite jurists, a baby's birth father cannot marry the breastfeeding father's children by blood, neither with his children by breastfeeding, as he cannot marry the breastfeeding mother's children by blood. Also, the majority of jurists permit marriage between other children of the birth father of the breastfed baby and the children of the breastfeeding parents.</ref>