I am a Shia Muslim, and my wife is a Sunni.
We have a new baby boy mashallah, and of course he was born a Muslim. But I wanted to know from others how they decided to deal with issues as to what Fiqh the child should have? Thank you.
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Congrats on the baby..
"We have a new baby boy mashallah, and of course he was born a Muslim"
I was unaware that aside from the sex and basic genetic makeup, the kids now also come with a predisposed religion. You must write a a piece for JAMA.
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Pinny, I guess your mammy and pappy didnt tell you that ALL babies are born muslim.
you were tooo.................. until your parental units brought you up as whatever you are.
when non muslims become muslims, they are called "reverts" because they revert to their original religion.
RP, forgive me for sounding rude, but isnt this a subject that you should have sorted out beforehand?
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We have/had agreed that we would let the child decide themselves, when it is mature enough, and in the meantime that they learn about both traditions. So it is not really an issue, and I was just wondering what other people in similar situations have done? 
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Shia sunni is not that much different as people make it out to be.
Both of you follow the Quran. Both of you read namaz. These are the most important things.
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RP, sounds like you have chosen the best way...........
Sunnis and Shia's have slight differences in the way they practice, unfortunately for some people its these tiny differences that count.
Congrats on the baby by the way!
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Right…somewhere in medical school they forget to highlight that all kids are bron muslims. 
Everyone is born a hindu LD..proe me wrong. 
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Since this is a question about sects in religions....
My mother was Episcopalian and my father was Catholic when they married and both were ex-communicated (throw out) for marrying the other. They made the decision, much like you did to allow us to decide. My brother and I stayed Catholic's, my sister a Methodist.
My first husband was Sunni Muslim and I am Catholic :) when we had the children, we decided they should be raised as Muslim. When he passed and I married my current husband (Sunni Muslim), the children are still Muslim. Primarily because it was more important to my first husband that they be Muslim than it was to me that they be raised Catholic.
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This is the situation my bhabhi was in when she was a child..
her mother very strict shia muslim.. dad strict sunni.. However some influence depends on which parent is the most domineering..
in my bhabhi's case it was her mum.. but growing up.. the children delved deep into the quran and religious books and decided for themselves..
Alhumdulillah all 5 of them have agreed the Shia fiqah is the right way :)
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i am completely against this bul** abt rasing a kid who ‘decides’ what he is after sampling…religions a way of life, and you have to predispose him to one of the two…with boys its best to expose him to father’s religion since he’ll be going to the masjid with you,( if you are more than an intellectual muslim)…if however, you are not much of a practising muslim, not physically close to yr relatives, and love to socialise in yr wife’s side of te family, it wont be a bad idea to let him be sunni…which ever side is more kuttar, i’ll say go for that…there is nothing in the world better than a proper religious orientation to get yr kids straight in the right ways, and unless u want to raise some ahmadi-sort of a muslim…i’ll say predispose him to one…
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this is honestly the first post of yours I have had relative ease in reading.
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The kid is a Muslim first and foremost, dont let such a thing get inbetween you. There really isnt much of a difference, its not 2 different religions.
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ahan.....know what kuttar means, bitiya?....lets see, is yr urdu improving or yr religion...:)
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hahahaha sorry this was just funny
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pinny, did you go to med school? I thought not.
If you did you would have gone to the lecture called “all babies are born muslim”
if people were born Hindu, they’d have lecture called “all babies are born Hindu”
I have never heard of this, therefore I conclude that my findings are indeed correct, All babies are born Muslim.
Yours sincerely
Daisy:)
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^ Medical school is not a challenge LD. Only middlers with bad skin go to medschool.
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Decide together how to raise him. Then when hes old enough he can make up his own mind.
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this thread has turned into a sathyanaas. can't you people grow up. sunnis and shias aren't THAT different that you fight so.
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How did this degenerate so quickly? C'mon people, you are what people see when they look at a faith and some of you don't look like good at all. You're all Muslim and some are doing their best to tear down other Muslims.