Reliance on Medical Analyses in Establishing Lineage
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. Does modern medicine, with its tests and analyses for determining a child's lineage, serve as a substitute for the lineage experts (qaffah) if those tests are accurate and precise?
The Shaykh:
They are not sufficient. They are not sufficient for attributing the child or establishing the child's lineage. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you.
The Shaykh:
Because the results of tests and laboratories are not accepted as a hundred percent certainty; rather, they are investigations that do not indicate the required outcome with one hundred percent certainty, and therefore they are often mistaken in the analyses.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. Does modern medicine, with its tests and analyses for determining a child's lineage, serve as a substitute for the lineage experts (qaffah) if those tests are accurate and precise?
The Shaykh:
They are not sufficient. They are not sufficient for attributing the child or establishing the child's lineage. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you.
The Shaykh:
Because the results of tests and laboratories are not accepted as a hundred percent certainty; rather, they are investigations that do not indicate the required outcome with one hundred percent certainty, and therefore they are often mistaken in the analyses.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 61 من 89|شرح العدة في شرح العمدة|كتاب اللعان|صالح الفوزان|الفقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:07:22)
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