Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)—The issue of “breastfeeding the elder” has sparked controversy between the Islamic preacher, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, the former director general of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and tweeters.
The matter began with a tweet from the owner of the account of Musaed Al-Taweel to the preacher Al-Ghamdi, in which he said: “Our Sheikh, what is the validity of breastfeeding the elder?” To which Al-Ghamdi replied, “It is true.”
The owner of the Madi al-Madi account enters the line saying: “Isn’t there a statement that it is a special case for Salem, the custodian of Hudhayfah, and if it is for everyone, then how can breastfeeding take place?” Al-Ghamdi replied to him, saying: “I differ in working with this hadith, including saying that it is specific to Salem, the custodian of Hudhayfah, and the response to that.” That there is no evidence for the statement of privacy, and Aisha took it and a group of jurists said it.
An account holder named “Kasparov” asked for evidence of what Al-Ghamdi said, and the latter responded with a tweet in which he said: “The connection of his chain of transmission, the justice of his narrators, the multiplicity of his ways, and the evidence of the companions’ work with him.”
It is noteworthy that this issue is not new, but rather has emerged repeatedly over the past years, and among what has emerged in it is the withdrawal of Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Bari, one of the imams of Al-Azhar, from a live episode on the air with LTC in 2016, after a sharp verbal argument broke out between him and researcher Abdo Maher, against the background of The controversy over the fatwa “breastfeeding the elder”, where Sheikh Al-Azhari indicated in this episode, which was dealing with the topic of contempt of religion, that this topic is a private fatwa and not a general fatwa, which was issued by the Prophet at that time and there was no other solution at the time, adding that it may be There is a “sound Sunnah” more severe than this raised issue.