Mishkat al-Masabih 3168

She said that the Prophet visited her when a man was with her and he seemed to disapprove of that. She told him that he was her brother and he replied, “Consider* who your brothers are, for fosterage is that consequent on hunger” (Fosterage applies only to infants and not to children who are able to take solid food).* The verb is in the plural, indicating that this is a general instruction and not simply a reply to A’isha.(Bukhari and Muslim.)