A Man Drank the Breastmilk of a Woman as Medicine, is She his Mother?

Frankly, I doubt that a woman’s milk is a reason for healing, and I think that the healing occurred at the same time and not because of it. Meaning: It was Allah The Exalted who wanted and decreed that the healing would occur at this circumstance, or this time, which was the time of drinking this milk. For we do not know that a woman’s milk is a means of healing. However, as I said in a previous episode, the sick person’s feeling about something has a profound effect on the disease. In any case, we do not think that a woman's milk is a reason/cause for healing. As for what he asked about, that she would be considered as a mother to him, she would not be his mother. That’s because it is one of the conditions of breastfeeding to be five or more breastfeeds. If it is less than that, it does not cause Mahram relationships (i.e., certain lineage-like relationships to occur). Meaning: it does not make the one breastfed a Mahram to the woman from whom he was breastfed, and she is not forbidden to him (i.e., as his mother from breastfeeding). According to the majority of scholars, it is also a condition that the breastfeeding must occur during its time. Meaning: at the time when the baby is nourished with breastfeeding, however, if he exceeded this time, by being weaned and not being dependent in his breastfeeding on milk, then the effect of the milk [of the woman] on him would not take place. It does not affect him. And some scholars are of the view that breastfeeding an adult makes a Mahram, because of the generality of Allah’s statement: {Your mothers who breastfed you…} (4:23), and because the Prophet ﷺ said to the wife of Abu Hudhayfah regarding Abu Hudhaifah’s freed slave Saalim, he said, “Breastfeed him so you would become unlawful to him [in marriage].” And he was older and would serve them, so some scholars used this as evidence that breastfeeding someone who is older has an effect and makes a Mahram. However, the majority of scholars are on [a view] contrary to that: it does not have an effect or make Mahram relationships. And Shaykhul-Islam ibn Taymiyyah chose a more detailed view. He said: if there is a necessity for breastfeeding the older person, and he was breastfed, the Mahram relationship is established. Otherwise, if there is no necessity, it is not established. However, the overweighing view is what the majority of the scholars chose. Also, what is indicative of this is when the Prophet ﷺ forbade being alone with women, they said: O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, what about Al-Hamu (the in-laws of the wife)? He said, "The Hamu is death.” [He ﷺ was] warning from the relatives of the husband being alone with the husband’s wife. And if breastfeeding resulted in allowing them to be alone, the Prophet ﷺ would have clarified it, since there is a need for it to be clarified. For example, he would have said… If the husband has a brother who lives with them at the same place, obviously there is a need to be alone with his wife. So, if there was a solution for this common situation that people need, the Prophet ﷺ would have said that she would breastfeed him, and the problem would be solved. So, because the Prophet ﷺ did not explain that, even with the need for it in this significant matter, this showed that there is no effect from breastfeeding on an older individual. This is the overweighing view. And what is appropriate is: avoiding breastfeeding the older individual no matter what the circumstances are, so we don’t fall into problems.