Intercourse with a dead woman carries two possible points of view. One of them is that it carries a prohibition, as the meaning is that it carries a continuous prohibition, since it is not characterized by life as is suckling. The second is that it does not carry a prohibition, and this is what Abu Hanifa and Al-Shafi’i said, since it is not for reasons of offspring, and since prohibition rests on obtaining something useful from the intercourse, and death annuls the usefulness. On the other hand, suckling establishes a kinship [i.e. forbidden] relationship when from it ensues generation of flesh and vivification of bones, and this ensues from the milk of a dead woman.