Mishkat al-Masabih 2370

‘Umar ibn al-Khattab reported: Captives were brought to the Prophet (peace be upon him), and among them was a woman whose breasts were full of milk. She was running about, and whenever she found a child among the captives, she took him, pressed him to her belly, and nursed him. The Prophet said to us, ‘Do you think this woman would throw her child into the Fire?’ We said, ‘No, not if she could prevent it.’ He said, ‘God is more merciful to His servants than this woman is to her child.’ Agreed upon. The Arabic source records it as agreed upon (al-Albani).