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Topic: The Sharīʿah Ruling on a Wife Using Her Husband’s Name After Marriage

(No-50299)

Q Mufti Sahib!
Nowadays, it has become very common for a woman to replace her father's name with her husband's name after marriage and use her husband's name as part of her own name.
Is this practice permissible according to Islamic law or not? Kindly provide a detailed explanation with clarification.

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It should be noted that if a woman, after marriage, attaches her husband's name to her own merely for the purpose of identification, recognition, or social convention, there is no Sharʿī objection to doing so.
The prohibition mentioned in the Aḥādīth regarding attributing oneself to someone other than one's father relates to changing one's lineage or falsely claiming someone other than one's real father as one's father. Simply using one's husband's name as a means of identification, recognition, or according to common social practice does not fall under this prohibition.
Therefore, if a woman uses her husband's name alongside her own solely for identification, without altering or denying her true lineage, it is permissible according to the Sharīʿah.

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دلائل:

القرآن الکریم: (التحریم، الآیة: 10)
اِمْرَاَةَ نُوْحٍ وَّ امْرَاَةَ لُوْطٍ، کَانتا تَحْتَ عَبْدَیْنِ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا صَالِحَیْنِ ۔۔۔۔ الخ

صحیح البخاری: (120/2، ط: دار طوق النجاۃ)
جاءت زينب، امرأة ابن مسعود، تستأذن عليه، فقيل: يا رسول الله، هذه زينب، فقال: «أي الزينب؟» فقيل: امرأة ابن مسعود، قال: «نعم، ائذنوا لها» فأذن لها

شرح النووی علی مسلم: (144/9، ط: دار احیاء التراث العربی)
قوله صلى الله عليه وسلم (ومن ادعى إلى غير أبيه أو انتمى إلى غير مواليه فعليه لعنة الله والملائكة والناس أجمعين) هذا صريح في غلظ تحريم انتماء الإنسان إلى غير أبيه أو انتماء العتيق إلى ولاء غير مواليه لما فيه من كفر النعمة وتضييع حقوق الإرث والولاء والعقل وغير ذلك مع ما فيه من قطيعة الرحم والعقوق.

Allah Almighty knows best,
Darul ifta Al-Ikhlas, Karachi.

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