The Ruling on the Child of a People of the Book and the Hadith: Every Child Is Born on the Fitrah

Question:
And other than the Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The statement of the father, may Allah have mercy on him, and if the child is from a People of the Book, then there is a blood money for him. The questioner asks: How can the child be from a People of the Book? When it is reported in the hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: This indicates that every child, and his child, is a Muslim, even if he is from a woman of the People of the Book.

Answer:
No, it is not as you understood. The child of the disbelievers follows the disbelievers, and the child of the Muslims follows the Muslims. meaning the Muslim. The hadith is not intended to refer to the child of a disbeliever, or it is intended to refer to the child of a disbeliever, but by the ruling that his parents are disbelievers, he becomes a follower of them. They are the ones who make him a Christian or a Jew. This includes the young and the old; he follows them.