There is a consensus in formal Islamic jurisprudence that adoption is prohibited. Adoption here means the canceling of birth affiliation and the creation of fictive kinship by a non-related party where name, succession, and inheritance rights of the child are legally created as though the non-related party were a biological parent. It is the absence of the biological bond with such a child that makes this practice dangerous, as explained in Sunnī rites; it alienates these legal heirs, it may lea…