He asked the Prophet ﷺ, or a man asked the Prophet ﷺ, "What number of witnesses is acceptable regarding breastfeeding?"The Prophet ﷺ replied, "A man or a woman."
حدثنا عبد الرزاق أنبأنا شيخ من أهل نجران حدثني محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن البيلماني عن أبيه
أنه سأل النبي ﷺ أو أن رجلا سأل النبي ﷺ فقال ما الذي يجوز في الرضاع من الشهود فقال النبي ﷺ رجل أو امرأة
Its chain of transmission is daif. First, because of the anonymity of the shaykh from the people of Najran, from whom Abdul-Razzaq narrated. Hafiz clarified this in Tajil 543, stating that he is Muhammad bin Utheim, saying, "Hisham bin Yusuf named him," meaning that Hisham bin Yusuf Sanani narrated this hadith from him just as Abdul-Razzaq narrated it. And it goes further, since Mutamir bin Sulayman also named him, as in the two chains that follow. Hafiz said in Tajil 372, in the biography of Muhammad bin Utheim, "Hisham bin Yusuf, Mutamir bin Sulayman, Abu Huzaifa, and Abdul-Razzaq narrated from him," but he left him unnamed, saying, "from a shaykh among the people of Najran." We will discuss Ibn Utheim in the chain that follows this one, Allah willing.Second, because of Muhammad bin Abdul-Rahman bin Bilmani, who is extremely daif. Ibn Main said, "He is nothing." Ibn Hibban said, "He narrated from his father a manuscript of roughly two hundred hadiths, all of them fabricated. It is not permissible to rely on him, nor to mention him except as a matter of astonishment." Bukhari wrote his biography in Kabir 1/1/163 and said, "His hadith is objectionable. Humaydi used to criticize him." He said the same in Duafa 32. Likewise Nasai said in Duafa, "His hadith is objectionable."His father, Abdul-Rahman bin Bilmani, was mentioned by Ibn Hibban among the trustworthy narrators, and he said, "Nothing of his hadith should be relied upon when it comes through the narration of his son Muhammad, because his son fabricates strange things and attributes them to his father." Daraqutni and Azdi both declared him daif. It appears to me that he himself is trustworthy, and that the fault lies with his son, and that those who declared him daif only did so for this reason, meaning because of the weakness of his son's narrations from him.The hadith is found in Majma al-Zawaid 4:201, where it says, "Ahmad and Tabarani narrated it in Kabir, and it contains Muhammad bin Abdul-Rahman bin Bilmani, who is daif." It seems he was pointing to the two following narrations, which do not contain the unnamed shaykh.In H it reads, "a man and a woman, and a woman," which is an error, both in joining with "and" instead of "or," and in the repetition of the phrase "and a woman." We have corrected it based on L and Majma al-Zawaid.