a boy while the other nurses a girl; the two nurslings are thereby paternal siblings and may never marry one another. The milk is attributed to the man—both before weaning and after—so long as the woman has not remarried. If she does remarry and her first milk continues until she bears a child from the new husband, that milk is then ascribed to both men, and the prohibition it establishes extends to the wet-nursed child in relation to the wet-nurse and to both husbands, so long as the original flow has not ceased. Once the first milk dries up completely and a new supply is produced, the prohibition is linked to the second husband alone, not to the first.

Some scholars of Medina reject the doctrine of paternal milk, but the sound position in our judgment is to uphold it, for it is authentically established from the Prophet ﷺ and was likewise the view of Ibn ʿAbbas.