Can a Woman Take Her Husband’s Surname?
It is permitted for the wife to take her husband’s surname. This is simply a customary practice adopted by many.
The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace), “There is no man who claims another man for his father, and that knowingly, but that he has disbelieved. Anyone who lays claim to what is not his is not one of us. He will take his seat in the Fire. Anyone who claims that another man is an unbeliever or says he is the enemy of Allah when that is not the case, that comes back on him.” [Bukhari; Muslim]
Ibn `Allan comments, “…and the person’s intention is to negate their paternal lineage; otherwise if they are commonly known by ascription to their grandfather or to the one who adopted them, and they ascribe themselves to that person due to its being common knowledge, without intending to negate their own lineage thereby, the threat would not apply to them.”
Answered By: Shaykh Asif of Halal or Haram
