وَأُمَّهَاتُكُمُ اللَّاتِي أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ
And your mothers who breastfed you. (Qurʾān 4:23, excerpt)
The verse mentions the marriage prohibition arising from breastfeeding, without itself specifying a number of feeding occasions. The Hanafi argument therefore appeals to its general wording when discussing lesser and greater quantities of nursing; other legal conditions of milk kinship remain a separate matter.
The issue is not simply the ordinary meaning of “feeding.” It is whether a numerical restriction can be established by another type of evidence.