an-Nawawi adds that this is a well-known point in religious jurisprudence...

an-Nawawi adds that this is a well-known point in religious jurisprudence, about which there is, of course, a different of opinion.(812)(313) The above tradition which we mentioned as a quotation of an-Nawawi in the book of Sahih of Muslim, has been quoted in the book of Tradition of at-Tirmidhi from Umm Salamah which makes this relationship more conditional, namely: "The state of sucking create sanctity and close relationship and prohibits marriage only if milk is offered as a substitute to food and the infant's bones are still soft (and not become hard) "(314) Then Abu 'Isa at-Tirmidhi, the famous author of the 'book writes: This is a correct tradition, which is acted upon by most scholar friends of the Prophet and others on the basis of the above remark of the Prophet.

According to the verdict of the Prophet in reference to this tradition, they believe that if the suckling occurs in the first two years of a baby's life, it created a legitimate intimacy, but after two full years, no intimacy is possible. These traditions were contrary to 'A'ishah's views. The words which, she quoted from the Prophet could not hold out against all the traditions of others, especially as her opponents were all the wives of the Prophet.

To remove this obstacle, the best way for her was to invent a Quranic verse to prove that it is possible to produce legitimate intimacy in adults with oneself through sucking. To attain this goal, again 'A'ishah narrates that a verse had descended about stoning to death and also about the sucking of adults in which it was said that ten suckings would be enough for obtaining legitimate intimacy.

She claimed that this verse was written on a piece of paper, placed under her bed, she said: "When the Prophet was ill in bed and we were looking after him in his last hours of life, a domestic animal entered the room and ate the paper, and thus the said verse was lost."(315)(316) In other narrations quoted from 'A'ishah by Muslim in his Sahih 'A'ishah says: In the Qur'an which had been descended to the Prophet, there existed the following verse: "Ten times of clear and known suckings provide legitimate intimacy." Then this verse was abrogated by the phrase 'five known times', but as this verse was being recited from the Qur'an, the Prophet passed away.