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I grew up Muslim and nobody told me that Muhammad

married his stepson's wife, who was also his

cousin, and this led to a Quran revelation that

banned stepsons so he could marry her. And then

this marriage led to breastfeeding an adult

man to make him related to you. And this inspired

Quran verses about this adult breastfeeding

that Aisha says were lost after Muhammad's death,

which kind of means that the Quran was not perfectly

preserved. This is a lot and it's super messy

and I know it sounds like a fever dream, but

this comes from the most authentic books that

make up the religion of Islam: Sahih Muslim

and the Quran. Quick reminder, like I said in

my last video, Islam does not allow rejecting

Sahih Hadith. Imam Shafi'i said rejecting the

Sunnah is rejecting revelation, and all Sunni

schools consider Bukhari and Muslim their most

authentic sources. So whatever you're about

to see, you can't dismiss it. Once again, I'm

not telling you this to shame you or disrespect

you if you're Muslim. I'm telling you this because

I care about you and this is genuinely what

I would have wanted to know when I was Muslim.

So, Zainab was married to Zaid, who was Muhammad's

adopted son. Then Muhammad decided he wanted

her, so Zaid decided to divorce her. This is

in Surah 33:37. Allah is speaking to Muhammad

and says, "You said to him, 'Keep your wife,'

but you were hiding in yourself what Allah would

reveal." "And you feared the people." Then when

Zaid finished with her, We married her to you.

This alone shows that Muhammad wanted something

regarding Zainab. He told Zaid to keep her while

hiding this desire, and he feared people's reactions.

And then Allah married her to him to silence

criticism. And the public outrage was so strong

that Allah actually ended up banning adoption

over it. All early Muslim Islamic scholars said

that because Muhammad married the divorced wife

of his adopted son, the people in Medina kept

saying Muhammad married his son's wife. So then

the Quran responds immediately by abolishing

adoption so that Zaid would no longer be considered

his son. And we see this in Surah 33:4 through

5. "He has not made your adopted sons your real

sons. Call them by their fathers' names." So

adoption had existed for centuries and it vanished

overnight because of this marriage. But abolishing

adoption created a new crisis inside many Muslim

homes. Before this revelation, adopted sons

were treated like real sons. But after it, they

suddenly became strangers to the women who raised

them, and these women now had to wear hijab

around them. The most famous case is Salim,

who had lived his whole life with Abu Hudhayfah

and his wife Sahla. Suddenly Sahla had to wear

hijab in front of him and he could no longer

freely enter the home. So their entire family

dynamic collapsed overnight. So then she went

to Muhammad to ask what to do. Now here's what

Muhammad's solution was. And this is straight

from Sahih Muslim 1453 A through C. Muhammad

said, "Give him five sucklings so he becomes

your mahram." This established adult breastfeeding

as a valid way to create a mahram relationship.

After this, Aisha believed that this ruling

applied generally and actually ordered adult

men to be breastfed so that they could enter

her home while she was unveiled. And this is

all fully authenticated. And then comes a huge

blow to Islam's credibility: a Quran verse about

breastfeeding was lost. And this is also in

Sahih Muslim 1452. Aisha says, "There was a

verse revealed in the Quran: ten breastfeedings

make a person mahram." "Then it was reduced

to five. And the Prophet died while it was still

recited as Quran." So this means that it was

Quran, not just Hadith. Muslims were reciting

it during Muhammad's lifetime, but it never

made it into the Quran that they have today.

And Sunni scholars like Al-Nawawi, Ibn Hazm,

Ibn Qudamah, and Al-Suyuti all confirm this.

My stomach literally did a flip when I first

learned about all this, and I just felt like

I couldn't not share this with a clear conscience.