Is the husband's son, who lives with his stepmother and believes her to be his real mother due to his ignorance of his mother's death, considered an orphan in Islamic law?
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An orphan is someone whose father has died, not their mother. As for someone whose mother has died, they are called an 'ajiy (عجي), and this description applies specifically to human beings.
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