What is the lineage of children if an Arab Muslim man marries a Turkish woman and another Persian Muslim woman? Are they Arabs, Turks, or Persians? And what is the lineage of children if a man from the Juboor tribe marries a woman from the Shammar tribe? Are they Juboor or Shammar?
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If an Arab man marries a Turkish woman or a woman from any other nation or tribe, the child is attributed to his father, not his mother, because Allah Almighty says: "Call them by [the names of] their fathers; it is more just in the sight of Allah."
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