Several Qur'anic verses, all dating from the Medinan period, lay down the Islamic ethic of breastfeeding [3]: 106 Quran 28:7 and Quran 28:12 refer to the nursing of Islamic prophet Moses to emphasize the loving bond between baby Moses and his mother.
[3]: 106 Breastfeeding is implied as a basic Maternal bond in Quran 22:2, which considers a mother neglecting nursing of her child as an unusual sign.
[6] However, the Sunni schools of thought disagree, arguing the father is not obligated to pay the mother if the two are divorced;[6] the wife already has the right to maintenance (food and clothing) under Islamic law.
Texts mentioned that Ahmad ibn Hanbal, founder of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence, also dealt with similar questions.
[11][12] The following tradition (hadith) treats both this topic as well as that of radāʿ al-kabīr, or suckling of an adult or breastfeeding an adult and number of sucklings: Urwah ibn al-Zubayr reports that the Prophet commanded the wife of Abū Hudhayfa to feed her husband's mawlā [i.e. servant], Sālim, so that he could go on living with them [upon attaining manhood].
[13][14][15][16] For most jurists (Ibn Hazm being one prominent exception), the bar to marriage was effective only if the nursling was an infant.
Yet even these allowed that a new relationship resulted between the two; Ibn Rushd, for example, ruled that the woman could now comport herself more freely in front of the nursed adult male, such as appearing before him unveiled.
[17] The famous traditionist Muhammad al-Bukhari was forced to resign his position of mufti and leave the city of Bukhara after ruling that two nurslings who suckled from the same farm animal became milk-siblings.