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The Book of Marriage

Sunan an-Nasā'ī 3286

أَعَلَى أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ لَوْ أَنِّي لَمْ أَنْكِحْ أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ مَا حَلَّتْ لِي إِنَّ أَبَاهَا أَخِي مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ

aʿalā ummi salamaha law annī lam ankiḥ umma salamaha mā ḥallat lī inna abāhā akhī mina ar-raḍāʿah

Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks

The full narration

It was narrated from 'Irak bin Malik that Zainab bint Abi Salamah told him, that Umm Habibah said to the Messenger of Allah:"We have been saying that you want to marry Durrah bint Abi Salamah." The Messenger of Allah said: "As a co-wife to Umm Salamah? Even if I were not married to Umm Salamah, she would not be permissible to me, for her father is my brother through breast-feeding

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Sunan an-Nasā'ī · 3286

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