Fostering and Guardianship
155 questions
If adoption is forbidden in Islam, then how did the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, adopt Zayd ibn Harithah and say about him: "He inherits me and I inherit him"?
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?
What should a person do who received the blood money for his deceased brother, deposited his minor nephew’s share of it, and then his brother’s wife, who is married, demands the money from him and threatens him with imprisonment, while he possesses documents proving the minor’s ownership of the money?
Is it permissible for an adoptive parent to bequeath inheritance to his adopted child, and what is the ruling on purchasing from this child after the death of his adoptive father?
Is eating fruit and food bought by a sister whose husband has died and who has children and is an orphan considered consuming the property of orphans, and is it therefore unlawful?
What is the ruling of Islam on adopting an abandoned child and changing his name to align with the family name to protect him from society?
What is the ruling of the Sharia on a man who gave his son as a gift to his brother, who is unable to have children, so the son became known by his uncle's name?
Should a 27-year-old man be informed of the truth that the woman he lives with is not his mother, and that the man who passed away was not his father, especially given a previous fatwa necessitating disclosure, and the dilemma between incurring sin and the shock to the young man?
Is the woman considered religiously sinful for adopting an illegitimate girl and concealing her from her real mother? Is her brother justified in demanding that the mother be allowed access to her daughter? And what should she do?
Is it permissible for a couple who have given birth to a child to donate their child to another immediately after its birth, or is it religiously permissible to transfer a fully developed fetus from its natural mother's womb and implant it in another woman's womb?
What is the jurisprudential status of a child born from an illegitimate relationship, after their parents married following the mother's divorce from her first husband?
What is the difference between an orphan (yatim) and an abandoned child (lateem), and is an orphan still called an orphan (yatim) after reaching puberty?
What is the ruling of the Sharia on adding children to another person's passport for the purpose of emigration, and what are the ways to address this matter, given the perpetrator's ignorance of Sharia rulings?
Is my participation in the committee approving adoption applications, which is permissible in my country, considered unlawful, knowing that I cannot object to this work?
Is it permissible to register the child of the other wife in my aunt's name, and what is your advice for their children?
Should a person who was adopted as an infant—and is now married—be informed of the fact that they are a foundling?
Is it permissible for a child born out of an illicit relationship to live with his mother after she marries the person who was a party to that relationship?
Is it permissible for a husband to spend on his wife from the money of his needy, orphaned brothers, while he is able to work and spend on her from his own money?
Is it permissible, Islamically, for the son to be given to the questioner's brother to raise him and attribute him to himself, knowing that this has already happened and the son is four years old, and that his brother and his wife are attached to him?
Is it permissible to spend the monthly aid that some orphaned siblings receive from charities on all needy siblings, or is its expenditure restricted to only those in whose name the aid is given?
Is it obligatory to inform adopted children of their true lineage while their adoptive parents are still alive, and what is the ruling on adoption in Islam, and what is the ruling on bequeathing one-third of the inheritance to them?
Is it permissible to set aside a portion of the Zakat for a sponsored orphan child and spend on him from it throughout the year, knowing that he is not a relative and one is not obligated to spend on him?
What should the questioner do to avoid accountability, and is she obligated to do anything regarding her knowledge of her relative's adoption of two children 30 years ago?
Is it permissible for officials at the the orphanage to hand over a child to someone who wishes to adopt him?