Al-Kafi 9874

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Muhammad Bin Ubeyda Al Hamdany who said, ‘Al-Reza^asws said: ‘What are your companions saying regarding the breast-feeding?’ I said, ‘The used to say that the milk is of the stallion (father) until there came the report from you^asws that it is a Prohibition from the breast-feeding what is a Prohibition from the lineage, so they returned to your^asws words’. So he^asws said: ‘And that is because the commander of the faithful (Caliph Al-Mamoun) asked me^asws about it yesterday, so he said to me, ‘Explain to me the milk is of the stallion’, and I^asws dislike the speech (talking to him). He^asws said to me: ‘Just as yourself, until I^asws asked about it. What do you say regarding a man who had mother of the various children, so one of them breast-fed a stranger boy with her milk. Is not everything from the children of that man, from the mothers of the various children, Prohibited unto that boy?’ I said, ‘Yes’. So Abu Al-Hassan^asws said: ‘So what is the matter the breast-feeding from the stallion (father) (brings about) Prohibition, and does not (bring about) Prohibition from the mothers, and rather the breast-feeding is from the mothers? And even if it was the milk of the stallion (father) as well (would bring about) Prohibition’.

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