Q: Can a woman take her husband's surname after marriage or does she have to keep her father's surname?
Similarly, does a child have to adopt the father's first name and / or surname or is it possible to give it any other name?
Q: My surname represents an Indian god. Is this permissible although I did not choose to have it, for example, my surname is Shiva or Vishnu. Should I change this or leave it even though our ancestors kept the name to honour these idols?
Q: Should a woman change her surname to her husband's surname instead of her father's surname after marriage?
Q: I have been blessed with a boy and a girl. We want to name them Faiyaz Rahman and Muntaha Rahman respectively. Is this permissible to have Rahman as a surname?
Q: When my husband was a child his father's name on his birth certificate was changed to his father's elder brother's name. When he grew up he asked a mufti about the sin of this act and the mufti said that this sin is not upon him, the sinner is the one who changed my husbands name in his childhood. Now he is using his uncles name all over the world. Whats the solution?
Q: If a woman is married in the world, what name will she be called by on the day of Qiyaamah, her husbands name or fathers name?
Q: Can a woman replace her father's name with her husband's name after marriage? Some friends sent me a post which says that it is strictly forbidden in Islam to add my husband's name with my name instead of my father. They have reasoned that if it was permissible, then Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) wives would have done the same, which they did not.
Q: Can a woman replace her father's name with her husband's name after marriage? Some friends sent me a post which says that it is strictly forbidden in Islam to add my husband's name with my name instead of my father. They have reasoned that if it was permissible, then the Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam's) wives would have done the same, which they did not. Please could you quote some Hadith for this.
Q: Is it permissible for a child to call himself with another man's surname other than his father's?
Q: A woman has children from her first marriage. If she remarries, is it permissible for her to give her children her second husbands surname? The children and relatives know who the real father is. But friends and acquaintances might not know.