The lineage of a child from unlawful cohabitation before Islam
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Question:
The questioner says: A man was a Christian and cohabited with a woman in an unlawful relationship, and she bore a child from him while living with him in her parents' house. Then this man converted to Islam. What is his obligation now toward the woman and the child? Is the child attributed to him or not?
Answer:
He must repent to Allah the Exalted and stay away from this wicked woman; he must distance himself from her completely. As for the child, the child of a fornicator is like a stone; it is not attributed to him. It is attributed only to its mother. It is attributed to the mother and not to the fornicator. Fornication does not establish lineage with the father; it establishes it only with the mother. So they are the children of their mother, not the children of the fornicator. Yes, the child belongs to the bed (the legitimate husband), and this is not a bed. This is not a bed; she is not a wife, so her children are not attributed to the man who fornicated with her. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
The questioner says: A man was a Christian and cohabited with a woman in an unlawful relationship, and she bore a child from him while living with him in her parents' house. Then this man converted to Islam. What is his obligation now toward the woman and the child? Is the child attributed to him or not?
Answer:
He must repent to Allah the Exalted and stay away from this wicked woman; he must distance himself from her completely. As for the child, the child of a fornicator is like a stone; it is not attributed to him. It is attributed only to its mother. It is attributed to the mother and not to the fornicator. Fornication does not establish lineage with the father; it establishes it only with the mother. So they are the children of their mother, not the children of the fornicator. Yes, the child belongs to the bed (the legitimate husband), and this is not a bed. This is not a bed; she is not a wife, so her children are not attributed to the man who fornicated with her. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
شرح كتاب الصيام من الروض المربع [3] — alfawzan.live (52:27)
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