Islamic adoptional jurisprudence

This is a sub-article to the articles Islamic marital jurisprudence and Adoption . Islamic regulations regarding adoption are generally distinct from practices and customs of adoption in the other non-muslim parts of the world like Western or East Asian societies. Contrary to what happens in the Western world, the social and jurisprudential understand is not that child formally leaves behind his or her identity as a member of his or her biological family and enters the one that raises them (the adoptive family). While raising a child who is not one's genetic child is allowed and, in the case of an orphan, even encouraged, the child does not become a child of the "adoptive" parents. it is forbidden by Islamic law to adopt a child (in the common sense of the word). instead, children retain membership to their original family. this is called in . This means, it is forbidden by Islam that the new father name the son after himself, and that the child is counted as a non- Mahram . This can be sidestepped by having the child breast-fed by the adoptive mother in the first two years of life (see milk kinship ). A hadith involving Aisha and Abu-Hudhayfah ibn Utbah 's adoptive son Salim mawla Abu Hudaifa states: Abu Hudhaifa, one of those who fought the battle of Badr , with Allah's Apostle adopted Salim as his son and married his niece Hind bint Al-Wahd bin 'Utba to him' and Salim was a freed slave of an Ansari woman. Allah's Apostle also adopted Zaid as his son. In the Pre-lslamic period of ignorance the custom was that, if one adopted a son, the people would call him by the name of the adopted-father whom he would inherit as well, till Allah revealed: "Call them (adopted sons) By (the names of) their fathers." (33.5) An important fact to keep in mind is that Muhammad himself had adopted a child, and Muhammad himself was fed by an adoptive mother during the first two years of his life. Relevant issues include the marriage between Zayd ibn Harithah 's ex-wife and Muhammad . About adoption in Islam Adoption in Islam Military Expeditions led by the Prophet

This is a sub-article of the articles Islamic marital jurisprudence and Adoption . Political Islamic leadership Caliphate Majlis-ash-Shura Imamate Wilayat al-faqih Bay'ah Dhimmi Aman Family Criminal Etiquette Adab Gender segregation ( Purdah ) Mahram Honorifics Toilet Economic Hygiene Military Jihad Ghanimah Hudna Istijarah (asylum) Prisoners of war Social Haqq al-Nas ( The right(s) of the people ) Islamic studies v t e Islamic views on adoption are generally distinct from practices and customs of adoption in other non-Muslim parts of the world like Western or East Asian societies. Raising a child who is not one's genetic child is allowed and, in the case of an orphan, even encouraged. But, according to the Islamic view, the child does not become a true child of the "adoptive" parents. The child is also a non- Mahram to members of the adoptive family. Thus many Muslims say that it is forbidden by Islamic law to adopt a child (in the common sense of the word), but permissible to take care of another child, which is translated into Arabic as . The adoptive child can become a mahram to his adopted family, if he or she is breast-fed by the adoptive mother before the age of two (see milk kinship ). There can also be confusion between a child that has been orphaned and one who has been abandoned but is presumed to have living parents. A hadith involving Aisha and Abu-Hudhayfah ibn Utbah 's adoptive son Salim mawla Abu Hudaifa states: Abu Hudhaifa, one of those who fought the battle of Badr , with Allah's Apostle adopted Salim as his son and married his niece Hind bint Al-Wahd bin 'Utba to him' and Salim was a freed slave of an Ansari woman. Allah's Apostle also adopted Zaid as his son. In the Pre-lslamic period of ignorance the custom was that, if one adopted a son, the people would call him by the name of the adopted-father whom he would inherit as well, till Allah revealed: "Call them (adopted sons) By (the names of) their fathers." (33.5) Muhammad himself had adopted a child, and was fed by an adoptive mother during the first two years of his life. Relevant issues include the marriage between Zayd ibn Harithah 's ex-wife and Muhammad, who later married his adopted son's wife.

Aspect of Islamic law This is a sub-article of the articles Islamic marital jurisprudence and Adoption . Political Islamic leadership Caliphate Majlis-ash-Shura Imamate Wilayat al-faqih Bay'ah Dhimmi Aman Family Criminal Etiquette Adab Gender segregation ( Purdah ) Mahram Honorifics Toilet Economic Hygiene Military Jihad Ghanimah Hudna Istijarah (asylum) Prisoners of war Social Haqq al-Nas ( The right(s) of the people ) Islamic studies v t e Islamic views on adoption are generally distinct from practices and customs of adoption in other non-Muslim parts of the world like Western or East Asian societies. Adoption in the western sense of the word is not recognized in Islam. Referring to the outlined textual evidence, Muslim legal scholars agreed generally and without delay that creating a new legal and permanent parent-child relationship by terminating existing legal bonds through adoption is permissible"