LessonsThe Scope of General Expressions, Specification and Solitary ReportsQuiz

قليل الرضاع وكثيره سواء عندنا في التحريم
In our position, a small and a large amount of nursing are alike in establishing the prohibition.

Under the Hanafi approach, once the legal conditions of nursing are met, a fixed threshold of three or five separate feeds is not required. Other juristic schools treat a number of feeds as relevant; the familiar Shafiʿi position requires five established nursings.

This is not merely a simplistic Qurʾān-versus-hadith contrast. Evidentiary reliability, the force of general wording, and the permissibility of specification by a report all bear on the conclusion.

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Breastfeeding: divergent legal conclusions

The Scope of General Expressions, Specification and Solitary Reports

قليل الرضاع وكثيره سواء عندنا في التحريم
In our position, a small and a large amount of nursing are alike in establishing the prohibition.

Under the Hanafi approach, once the legal conditions of nursing are met, a fixed threshold of three or five separate feeds is not required. Other juristic schools treat a number of feeds as relevant; the familiar Shafiʿi position requires five established nursings.

This is not merely a simplistic Qurʾān-versus-hadith contrast. Evidentiary reliability, the force of general wording, and the permissibility of specification by a report all bear on the conclusion.