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 "id": "concept/rada-suckling-fiqh",
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 "slug": "rada-suckling-fiqh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الرضاع",
  "en": "Rada' (suckling): who nurses, the wage of the nurse, the bars of marriage by milk kinship, and how suckling is proved",
  "ur": "رضاع (دودھ پلانا)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الرضاع في اللغة مص الثدي وشرب اللبن، وفي الشرع وصول لبن امرأة أو ما حصل من لبنها في جوف طفل بشروط. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8762} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} والإرضاع واجب على الأم ديانة عند الحنفية، ويجب على الأب استرضاع ولده عند الشافعية والحنابلة إذا تعينت الأم، والأم أحق بالرضاع إن رغبت فيه، وللمرضعة أجرة المثل عند الشافعية والحنابلة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8764} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8765} ويثبت التحريم بلبن المرأة، ولا يثبت بلبن الرجل أو البهيمة، وبلبن الميتة عند الجمهور، ويكفي وصول اللبن إلى الجوف ولو مشوبا عند الجمهور. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8766} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8767} ويختلف الفقهاء في عدد الرضعات: فالحنفية والمالكية يكفي القليل والكثير، والشافعية والحنابلة يشترطون خمس رضعات. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8768} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} ومدة الرضاع المحرمة حولان عند الشافعية والحنابلة وأبي يوسف ومحمد، وقال أبو حنيفة حولان ونصف. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} ويترتب على الرضاع تحريم المرضعة على الرضيع وفروعه وأصوله، وأولاد المرضعة من الرضاع إخوته، ولبن الفحل ينشر الحرمة عند الجمهور. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8772} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8773} ويثبت الرضاع بالإقرار أو بالبينة، ويختلف الفقهاء في نصابها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8776} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8777} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8778} وللمرضعة حق على من أرضعته، ويستحب أن يكافئها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8779} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8780}",
  "en": "Rada' is the sucking of the breast and drinking of milk; in law it is the arrival of a woman's milk, or what comes of it, into the belly of an infant under conditions. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8762} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} Nursing is a duty on the mother, in the Hanafi view a duty of religion and not of law; for the Shafi'is and Hanbalis the father must arrange it if the mother is not fit, and the nurse is paid the usual wage. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8764} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8765} The bar of kinship comes from a woman's milk and not a man's or an animal's; from the milk of a dead woman by the majority; and from a mixed milk where its effect shows. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8766} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8767} The schools differ on the number of sucks: the Hanafis and Malikis count any number, the Shafi'is and Hanbalis five. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8768} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} The period of suckling that bars marriage is two years by the Shafi'is, the Hanbalis, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad, and two and a half years in Abu Hanifa's view. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} By suckling the nurse and her line are barred to the child, and the nurse's children are his milk-siblings; the milk of the stallion (the husband of the nurse) bars by the majority. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8772} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8773} Suckling is proved by admission or evidence, and the schools differ on the number of witnesses. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8776} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8777} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8778} The nurse has a claim on the one she nursed, and it is recommended to reward her. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8779} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8780}",
  "ur": "رضاع بچے کو عورت کا دودھ پلانا ہے؛ پانچ دفعہ دودھ پینے سے رشتہ کی حرمت ثابت ہوتی ہے (شافعی و حنبلی)، جبکہ حنفی و مالکی ہر تعداد کو کافی سمجھتے ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8768} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} دودھ پلانے کی مدت دو سال ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771}"
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 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "halal-and-haram"
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  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «رضاع»، ص 8762-8780 من المسح (الأرقام المطبوعة ص 238-256)",
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   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; long headword read on scan pages 8762-8780 (next heading رضخ on p.8781). Qur'anic verses and hadiths named, not typed; the detailed school-by-school positions on the milk of a stallion, of a fornicator, and on the proof are summarised; footnote citations omitted; Urdu is a short draft."
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الرضاع في اللغة مص الثدي وشرب اللبن، وفي الشرع وصول لبن امرأة أو ما حصل من لبنها في جوف طفل بشروط. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8762} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} والإرضاع واجب على الأم ديانة عند الحنفية، ويجب على الأب استرضاع ولده عند الشافعية والحنابلة إذا تعينت الأم، والأم أحق بالرضاع إن رغبت فيه، وللمرضعة أجرة المثل عند الشافعية والحنابلة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8764} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8765} ويثبت التحريم بلبن المرأة، ولا يثبت بلبن الرجل أو البهيمة، وبلبن الميتة عند الجمهور، ويكفي وصول اللبن إلى الجوف ولو مشوبا عند الجمهور. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8766} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8767} ويختلف الفقهاء في عدد الرضعات: فالحنفية والمالكية يكفي القليل والكثير، والشافعية والحنابلة يشترطون خمس رضعات. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8768} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} ومدة الرضاع المحرمة حولان عند الشافعية والحنابلة وأبي يوسف ومحمد، وقال أبو حنيفة حولان ونصف. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} ويترتب على الرضاع تحريم المرضعة على الرضيع وفروعه وأصوله، وأولاد المرضعة من الرضاع إخوته، ولبن الفحل ينشر الحرمة عند الجمهور. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8772} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8773} ويثبت الرضاع بالإقرار أو بالبينة، ويختلف الفقهاء في نصابها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8776} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8777} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8778} وللمرضعة حق على من أرضعته، ويستحب أن يكافئها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8779} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8780}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مواطن البحث",
     "markdown": "تُذكر أحكام النفقة والحضانة والنكاح في مواضعها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8772}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/rada-suckling-fiqh",
    "lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-23"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Rada' is the sucking of the breast and drinking of milk; in law it is the arrival of a woman's milk, or what comes of it, into the belly of an infant under conditions. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8762} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} Nursing is a duty on the mother, in the Hanafi view a duty of religion and not of law; for the Shafi'is and Hanbalis the father must arrange it if the mother is not fit, and the nurse is paid the usual wage. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8763} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8764} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8765} The bar of kinship comes from a woman's milk and not a man's or an animal's; from the milk of a dead woman by the majority; and from a mixed milk where its effect shows. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8766} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8767} The schools differ on the number of sucks: the Hanafis and Malikis count any number, the Shafi'is and Hanbalis five. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8768} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} The period of suckling that bars marriage is two years by the Shafi'is, the Hanbalis, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad, and two and a half years in Abu Hanifa's view. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} By suckling the nurse and her line are barred to the child, and the nurse's children are his milk-siblings; the milk of the stallion (the husband of the nurse) bars by the majority. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8772} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8773} Suckling is proved by admission or evidence, and the schools differ on the number of witnesses. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8776} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8777} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8778} The nurse has a claim on the one she nursed, and it is recommended to reward her. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8779} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8780}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Where to look further",
     "markdown": "Maintenance, custody and marriage are treated in their own entries. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8772}"
    }
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    "id": "concept/rada-suckling-fiqh",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-23"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "رضاع بچے کو عورت کا دودھ پلانا ہے؛ پانچ دفعہ دودھ پینے سے رشتہ کی حرمت ثابت ہوتی ہے (شافعی و حنبلی)، جبکہ حنفی و مالکی ہر تعداد کو کافی سمجھتے ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8768} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8769} دودھ پلانے کی مدت دو سال ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8771}"
    }
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    "status": "draft"
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  "concept/ahl-al-nasab",
  "concept/akdariyya",
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