A Brahmin boy raised [by a Muslim] and the imamate [of his offspring]

Question

Zayd is a Muslim. Because he was childless, he took in and raised a Hindu Brahmin boy, and married him to a girl of a [certain] family. Two children were born from this Brahmin. They too were educated; they are about 22 years old, and they claim [the right] to be imams of the mosque and to lead the prayer. What is [the ruling on] appointing such a person as imam?

Answer

If the Brahmin boy whom [Zayd] raised had become a Muslim and [Zayd] then married him to a Muslim girl, there is no difficulty at all. When the children born of him possess the qualities [required for] leading the prayer, their imamate is valid. But if that Brahmin boy (God forbid)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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