Is it permissible for the husband to register his wife's son, who is attributed to a father other than him, in his own name, given that his real father is alive and does not want him?
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Adoption, which means attributing a child to other than his biological father, is forbidden in Islam, based on the Almighty's saying: "Call them by their fathers' names."
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