Children & Parenting
Parents bring questions that start at birth and do not stop. This topic covers the newborn and aqiqah, the sacrifice offered for a new child, and naming children. Other pages cover teaching faith and prayer, discipline and upbringing, and fostering and guardianship. Questions about school, screens and a child's safety belong here too. Every answer here is a sourced summary of a fatwa published on Ftawy, with the full ruling one tap away. Start with teaching faith and prayer if your question is about a child's worship.
9 subtopics2,195 questions
What are you looking for?
Sections in this topic
Large sections3
Medium sections3
Questions · 2,195 questions
Does a triple divorce take effect if the husband threatens to divorce his wife should their expelled son enter the home?
How is the inheritance divided among 5 daughters, 2 full sisters, and 4 full nephews?
What is the father's responsibility towards his children born out of wedlock, and must he inform his Muslim fiancée about his past?
Is a daughter considered undutiful to her father if she supplicates against him, despite his harm and injustice towards her and her mother?
Does the act of masturbating once, with uncertainty about the emission of semen, count as puberty?
Is it permissible to use a newborn's money, received from felicitations, for the Aqiqah, or to use it and then return it?
Is it permissible for a father to spend equally on his sons and daughters regarding food, clothing, and general living expenses, or must the spending follow the same method as the distribution of inheritance: "A male shall have the share of two females"?
What is the share of each heir from the aforementioned inheritance?
How is the inheritance distributed among: three sons, a mother, a daughter, and a wife?
What is the interpretation of the noble Hadith: "No child of Adam is born but Satan touches him at birth, and he cries out screaming from the touch of Satan, except for Mary and her son," concerning children who do not cry at birth due to a birth defect, and does the Hadith apply to them even though they did not cry?
Is it permissible for a mother to eat and drink with her children from the money allocated to them from their father's inheritance after his death? How should food be divided between males and females? And is it permissible for visitors to eat from this money?
Is it permissible to hit children under the age of ten or seven for violating the rulings of Sharia, or for not fasting or praying, or for an unintentional disciplinary action?
How can the Hadith "Were it not that I would overburden my Ummah, I would have ordered them to perform ablution for every prayer" be reconciled with the Hadith "No one maintains his ablution except a believer"?
What must someone who is a heavy sleeper and does not wake up to an alarm for the Dhuhr prayer do so that he is not negligent in missing the prayer?
What is the ruling on dealing with a mother afflicted with dementia who accuses her granddaughter of theft and insists on it, while the children know that these are false statements?
Is it permissible for me to slaughter an 'aqīqah for my brother or sister out of my own money, knowing that my father is unable to do so, and I have already performed 'aqīqah for myself?
Would the spouses be sinful if they did not name their daughter "Fairouz" in compliance with the mother's/mother-in-law's wish, especially given the husband's fear of her anger and the problems that would result from it?
What is the ruling on giving a child a piece of dough, with the expectation that it will fall on the ground or be thrown in the trash after being played with? And is this considered a desecration of the bounty (Ni'mah)?
Why does the Quran not mention male circumcision, the story of Hagar, and the miracle of the well of Zamzam, while the Bible mentions them?
Is it permissible to name a newborn girl "Hana" with the intention of happiness and bliss, or is the name derived from the verb "hanna" meaning to cry?
What are the limits of the legal responsibility of a brother towards his orphaned sister whose affairs he manages? And is he obligated to check on her daily, or is visiting her two days a week sufficient?
Is a creator of beneficial educational content for children on smart devices held sinful if a child is exposed to harmful online content due to possessing the device, motivated by the desire to benefit from that content?
Is it considered an act of disobedience for a child to prevent his father from taking a second wife if the father lacks the financial means to do so?
What is the ruling on being named: Jada?