after her death and a child is made to drink it, the prohibition applies. If human milk is mixed with the milk of a ewe and the human milk predominates, the prohibition applies; but if the ewe’s milk is predominant, no prohibition applies.

When the milk of two women is mixed, Abu Ḥanifah and Abu Yusuf hold that the prohibition is attributed to whichever woman’s milk forms the greater part, whereas Muḥammad rules that it is attributed to both.

If milk descends in a virgin and she breast-feeds a child, the prohibition applies; but if milk descends in a man and he feeds a child with it, the prohibition does not apply.

If two boys drink the milk of an ewe, no foster relationship arises between them.

If a man marries both a minor girl and an adult woman, and the adult breast-feeds the minor, both women become forbidden to him. If the marriage with the adult woman has not yet been consummated, she is entitled to no dower, while the minor receives half her dower; the husband may reclaim that amount from the adult woman if she deliberately sought to invalidate the marriage. If she did not intend such harm, she is not liable for anything.

Women’s testimony alone is not accepted in matters of suckling; it is established only by the testimony of two men, or of one man and two women.