Sunan an-Nasa'i
The Book of Marriage
كتاب النكاح
Chapter 48
تَحْرِيمِ الْجَمْعِ بَيْنَ الْمَرْأَةِ وَخَالَتِهَا .
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim reported to us; he said: al-Mu'tamir informed us, from Dawud ibn Abi Hind, from al-Sha'bi, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prohibited marrying a woman together with her paternal aunt, or a paternal aunt together with her brother’s daughter.
Translation notes
The report states the aunt–niece pairing in both directions: a woman with her paternal aunt, and the aunt with her brother’s daughter.
Muhammad ibn Abd al-A'la reported to us; he said: Khalid narrated to us; he said: Shu'bah narrated to us; he said: Asim informed me: I read to al-Sha'bi a written report containing a narration from Jabir, from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who said: ‘A woman must not be married together with her paternal aunt, nor together with her maternal aunt.’ He said: I heard this from Jabir.
Translation notes
Asim describes reading a written report to al-Sha'bi and then explicitly says he heard this report from Jabir.
Muhammad ibn Adam informed me, from Ibn al-Mubarak, from Asim, from al-Sha'bi, who said: I heard Jabir ibn Abd Allah say: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prohibited marrying a woman together with her paternal aunt or her maternal aunt.
Ibrahim ibn al-Hasan informed me; he said: Hajjaj narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prohibited marrying a woman together with her paternal aunt or her maternal aunt.
Chapter 49
مَا يَحْرُمُ مِنَ الرَّضَاعِ .
Ubayd Allah ibn Sa'id reported to us; he said: Yahya narrated to us; he said: Malik informed us; he said: Abd Allah ibn Dinar narrated to me, from Sulayman ibn Yasar, from Urwah, from A'ishah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who said: ‘What is forbidden through birth is forbidden through nursing.’
Translation notes
The report states the equivalence of marriage prohibitions arising through blood kinship and those arising through breastfeeding.
Qutaybah reported to us; he said: al-Layth narrated to us, from Yazid ibn Abi Habib, from Irak, from Urwah, from A'ishah, who informed him that her paternal uncle through nursing, named Aflah, asked permission to enter. She kept herself screened from him, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was informed. He said: ‘Do not screen yourself from him, for what is forbidden through nursing is forbidden through lineage.’
Translation notes
The report identifies Aflah as A'ishah’s paternal uncle through nursing and records the instruction not to maintain the veil from him on that basis.
Muhammad ibn Bashshar reported to us; he said: Yahya narrated to us, from Malik, from Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr, from Amrah, from A'ishah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who said: ‘What is forbidden through nursing is forbidden through lineage.’
Muhammad ibn Ubayd reported to us; he said: Ali ibn Hashim narrated to us, from Hisham ibn Urwah, from Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr, from his father, from Amrah, who said: I heard A'ishah say: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘What is forbidden through nursing is forbidden through birth.’
Translation notes
This transmission uses al-wiladah (‘birth’) for the comparison term rendered as ‘lineage’ in a nearby version.
Chapter 50
تَحْرِيمِ بِنْتِ الأَخِ مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ .
Hannad ibn al-Sari reported to us, from Abu Mu'awiyah, from al-A'mash, from Sa'd ibn Ubaydah, from Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, why do you carefully select among Quraysh while leaving us?’ He asked, ‘Do you have anyone in mind?’ I said, ‘Yes, the daughter of Hamzah.’ The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘She is not lawful for me; she is the daughter of my brother through nursing.’
Translation notes
The exchange concerns Ali’s suggestion of Hamzah’s daughter; the Prophet gives milk kinship as the reason she is not lawful to him.
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad informed me; he said: Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated to us, from Shu'bah, from Qatadah, from Jabir ibn Zayd, from Ibn Abbas, who said: Hamzah’s daughter was mentioned to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and he said: ‘She is the daughter of my brother through nursing.’ Shu'bah said: Qatadah heard this directly from Jabir ibn Zayd.
Translation notes
The report includes Shu'bah’s transmission note confirming Qatadah heard it from Jabir ibn Zayd.
Abd Allah ibn al-Sabbah ibn Abd Allah reported to us; he said: Muhammad ibn Sawa' narrated to us; he said: Sa'id narrated to us, from Qatadah, from Jabir ibn Zayd, from Ibn Abbas, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was asked to marry Hamzah’s daughter. He said: ‘She is the daughter of my brother through nursing, and what is forbidden through nursing is forbidden through lineage.’
Translation notes
The wording ‘urida ala’ indicates that Hamzah’s daughter was proposed to him; the reason given is milk kinship.
Chapter 51
الْقَدْرِ الَّذِي يُحَرِّمُ مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ .
Harun ibn Abd Allah informed me; he said: Ma'n narrated to us; he said: Malik narrated to us—and al-Harith ibn Miskin, by recitation to him while I listened—from Ibn al-Qasim, who said: Malik narrated to me, from Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr, from Amrah, from A'ishah, who said: ‘Among what Allah, Mighty and Exalted, revealed’—al-Harith said, ‘among what was revealed of the Qur’an’—‘were ten specified sucklings that establish prohibition; then they were abrogated by five specified sucklings. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) died while this was among what is recited of the Qur’an.’
Translation notes
The report preserves a wording difference in the introductory phrase: one version says ‘among what Allah revealed,’ while al-Harith’s version explicitly says ‘among what was revealed of the Qur’an.’ It gives the numbers ten and five and states that the former was abrogated by the latter.
Abd Allah ibn al-Sabbah ibn Abd Allah reported to us; he said: Muhammad ibn Sawa' narrated to us; he said: Sa'id narrated to us, from Qatadah and Ayyub, from Salih Abu al-Khalil, from Abd Allah ibn al-Harith ibn Nawfal, from Umm al-Fadl: The Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was asked about nursing, and he said: ‘One or two sucklings do not establish prohibition.’ Qatadah said: ‘One or two sucks.’
Translation notes
The report’s two forms use terms for a single nursing or suckling; both the Prophet’s wording and Qatadah’s gloss are retained.
Shu'ayb ibn Yusuf reported to us, from Yahya, from Hisham, who said: My father narrated to me, from Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who said: ‘One or two sucks do not establish prohibition.’
Translation notes
The report states that one or two sucklings are insufficient to establish the relevant nursing prohibition.
Ziyad ibn Ayyub reported to us; he said: Ibn Ulayyah narrated to us, from Ayyub, from Ibn Abi Mulaykah, from Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, from A'ishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘One or two sucks do not establish prohibition.’
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Bazi' reported to us; he said: Yazid—meaning Ibn Zuray'—narrated to us; he said: Sa'id narrated to us, from Qatadah, who said: We wrote to Ibrahim ibn Yazid al-Nakha'i to ask him about nursing, and he wrote back that Shurayh had related to us that Ali and Ibn Mas'ud used to say: ‘A small or large amount of nursing establishes prohibition.’ His letter also stated that Abu al-Sha'tha' al-Muharibi related to us that A'ishah told him the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to say: ‘One quick suck or two do not establish prohibition.’
Translation notes
The text reports two differently attributed statements: a view from Ali and Ibn Mas'ud as transmitted by Shurayh, and a prophetic report from A'ishah via Abu al-Sha'tha'. The distinction is preserved without harmonizing them.
Hannad ibn al-Sari narrated to us in his report from Abu al-Ahwas, from Ash'ath ibn Abi al-Sha'tha', from his father, from Masruq, who said: A'ishah said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) entered while a man was sitting with me. This displeased him greatly, and I saw anger on his face. I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, he is my brother through nursing.’ He said: ‘Be sure about who your brothers through nursing are—for nursing is only from hunger.’
Translation notes
The closing expression links legally effective nursing to feeding in infancy, when the child is hungry; the report emphasizes verifying the nursing relationship.
Chapter 52
لَبَنِ الْفَحْلِ .
Harun ibn Abd Allah reported to us; he said: Ma'n narrated to us; he said: Malik narrated to us, from Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr, from Amrah, that A'ishah informed her that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was with her and she heard a man asking permission to enter Hafsah’s house. A'ishah said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, this man is asking permission to enter your house.’ The Messenger of Allah said, ‘I think it is so-and-so’—Hafsah’s uncle through nursing. A'ishah said, ‘If so-and-so—her uncle through nursing—were alive, he would enter upon me.’ The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Nursing makes unlawful what birth makes unlawful.’
Translation notes
The report identifies the man as Hafsah’s uncle through nursing, then A'ishah refers to her own milk uncle in the example; the concluding rule is retained as stated.
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim informed me; he said: Abd al-Razzaq informed us; he said: Ibn Jurayj informed us; he said: Ata informed me, from Urwah, that A'ishah said: ‘My uncle through nursing, Abu al-Ja'd, came, but I turned him away’—Hisham said: ‘He was Abu al-Qays.’ Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) came, and I told him. The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Let him in.’
Translation notes
The report records a name variant: Abu al-Ja'd, with Hisham identifying him as Abu al-Qays. The instruction is to admit the milk uncle.
Abd al-Warith ibn Abd al-Samad ibn Abd al-Warith reported to us; he said: My father narrated to me—from his father—from Ayyub, from Wahb ibn Kaysan, from Urwah, from A'ishah: Abu al-Qays’s brother asked permission to enter upon A'ishah after the verse of veiling had been revealed, but she refused to admit him. This was mentioned to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and he said: ‘Let him in, for he is your uncle.’ I said, ‘A woman nursed me; the man did not nurse me.’ He said: ‘He is your uncle, so let him enter upon you.’
Translation notes
The report explicitly situates the incident after the verse of veiling and records A'ishah’s question about the man, who had not personally nursed her.