What is the wisdom behind the impermissibility for a woman to take her husband's family name instead of her own, or to add it after her family name, after marriage?
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It is not permissible to attribute a wife to her husband's family. The wisdom behind this is compliance with the and the fear of mixing lineages and losing rights, because altering lineages leads to great corruption.
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