Section 1: Definition of Breastfeeding and its ruling

Definition of breastfeeding:
The linguistic meaning of breastfeeding in Arabic is sucking breast milk from the breast. However, in Islamic terms, it means delivering the breastmilk of a woman to the stomach of a child under the age of two years old.
2. The ruling on breastfeeding
It is obligatory to breastfeed children who are of nursing age and need it, according to the consensus of the four Madhhabs, [244]They differed on who should be obligated to it. which is the view of some of the righteous predecessors.